Hank Shaw, “Hunt, Gather, Cook”, 2011 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: F. Gillette & H. Zieman, “White House Cookbook”, 1887, PART THREE (III).
INTRODUCTION.
The annual per capita meat consumption in the United States is 54 pounds beef, 50 pounds pork, 1 pound lamb, and 1 pound venison. This one-hundred six (106) pounds is equal to the poultry consumption (chicken, turkey, duck).
Venison unlike the aforesaid other meats is not from farming, but from hunting. The consumer wants “venison” for the same reason he wants “wild-caught fish”. The consumer wants food from the wilderness and not farmland.
COMMENTS.
This term “venison” includes any “deer”, or “antelope” species.
Wilderness areas with species of “venison” vary from one location to the next.
For example, “whitetail deer” (Virginia deer) is widely hunted in the American Southern states. This is a food that local people wish to eat. This cookbook from 1887 lists “venison” from hunting, and the farmland meat is not preferable to hunting.
