On the Sublime

Food, hunting, enchiladas, and the strongest passion.

I’ve not written about food in awhile. Some of you may be happy about this: my incessant sermonizing on radical eating around this time last year still too fresh in your minds. Others, who came here because, presumably, I write about food, might have spent the last few weeks wondering where the heck their lobster carbonara¹ recipe is.

This newsletter is about a lot of things. It started off with me writing a simple recipe each week², but in the ensuing three years I’ve veered off into fatherhood, the outdoors, enlightenment, fitness, and even dabbled with poetry and photography. Cow We Doin’ consists of multitudes. But, with just about a month until the start of archery deer season in most of New England, I am once again thinking about the importance of being connected to your food.

Jesse C. McEntee asked the other day “why [do] we hunt?” He proposed the following: for survival, for entertainment, for conservation and for inspiration. I get that. However, I am — and I presume most of you who read this a…