Ep. 211: Hunting with Your Enemy

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Dan discusses how this book influenced his decision to start hunting. He mentions it was the first book to make him think about an animal's life before eating it, and references a chapter where Pollan hunts pigs in California. This reading led Dan to call his friend Mo and say he wanted to kill an animal.

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Dan mentions using a recipe from the Babbo Cookbook to make a pheasant ragout after his first successful pheasant hunt. He describes it as 'a great cookbook' and used it to prepare his first successfully eaten game bird.

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Steve Rinella mentions this book when discussing writing and writers, describing it as 'History of the American Great Plane, phenomenal book.' He brings up Ian Frazier as a New Yorker writer in the context of discussing writing as a career.

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Steve discusses his attempt to improve his literary knowledge before graduate school. He mentions dedicating a summer to trying to get through Joyce's Dubliners, which he thought would be easy because it was 'a little short book,' but found difficult because he had previously only read nature and history books.