Chuck Wagon cook Chef Lenny McNab brings more than 20 years of culinary expertise to his role as executive chef at the Kessler Canyon guest ranch in western Colorado.
At the age of 16, he had the honor of preparing dinner for President George H. Bush, after beginning his culinary career three years earlier.

McNab attended a culinary school in Bad Kissingen, Germany and is one of only a few chefs who specialize in the lost art of “Dutch over cooking.”

Recipes Include

1 -Coffee Crusted Lamb Chops

2 -Filet of Elk En Croute with Mushroom Duxell and Mallard Foie Gras

3 -Coffee Crusted Cowboy Steaks

4 -Truffle Mashed Potatoes

It can happen at any time, whether moments out of the truck at the start of the new day or at the end of it all, tired, footsore and cold.

“Don’t take your eye off the dog,” Darren Roe said. It was a lesson we would learn again and again.

Bill Herrick, my companion on the hunt, and I stayed the night before at the Running Y Ranch in southern Oregon. The next day, we met up with Darren, of Roe Outfitters, before heading east into the sunrise on Highway 140.

The day dawned better than we had any right to expect, with a little wind to start. A light snow blanketed the fields, perfect for tracking valley quail behind a pointing dog. We turned off the highway and followed a track through a series of gates and parked next to a corral. Darren followed his young pointer, a German wirehair named Oreo, while Bill and I spread out on either side…

…Oreo whirled and stopped, one foreleg off the ground, nose locked on scent. Darren didn’t trust the point, but…

Archibald Rutledge was the 20th century’s most prolific sporing scribe. Known to family and friends as “Old Flintlock,” he was an internationally acclaimed poet, beloved teacher and author of close to three score books. He also came with a single vote of winning both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1949.

He resurrected the faded glory of South Carolina’s Hampton Plantation on the Santee River ,with its rich history tracing back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a U.S. Supreme Court justice and a visit by President George Washington. The effort is described in his best-known work, Home by the River. Most of all, though, he was a hunter for the ages.

Often remembered for tales of deer and turkey hunting, he was also an avid wingshooter…