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The Autumn Game Cook
You wait for October the way kids wait for Christmas.
You wait for October the way kids wait for Christmas. You know a hunter. You know when the boar is right, when venison hits the market. You cook long, in the Dutch oven, in red wine, with forest spices. You love musky, wild, deep flavors. Powerful tastes don't scare you:…
Your main traits
- game
- woody
- powerful
- long
Your aromatic portrait
You know a hunter. You know when the boar is right, when venison hits the market. You cook long, in the Dutch oven, in red wine, with forest spices. You love musky, wild, deep flavors. Powerful tastes don't scare you: bloody meats, long sauces, potatoes roasted in duck fat. You use few spices, but they're noble: Voatsiperifery, Tellicherry, Tasmanian pepperberry, juniper. You make your own jugged hare every couple of years. You live for autumn and winter as the master season. You cook red over white, long over short, wild over farmed. Chestnut honey rides on your game the way lingonberry rides on your venison.
Your 5 signature products
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« Wild Voatsiperifery is your absolute pepper for game: woody, camphorous, scaled to boar and venison. Nothing else matches the wild meat. »
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« Tasmanian pepperberry, fruity-hot, stretches out the long finish on your jugged dishes and grand-veneur sauces. Stains the sauce deep purple. »
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« Tellicherry, meaty and chocolatey, is your pepper for seared game and long red-wine marinades. It holds against the strongest meat. »
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« Chestnut honey, bitter-woody, rides on your game in sauce or as a glaze. An essential rustic, forest note on the plate. »
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« Danish smoked salt over seared game adds a woodsmoke note that extends the forest dimension of the dish. Finish, off the heat. »
Your signature dishes
- venison stew
- wild boar in grand-veneur sauce
- jugged hare
Your go-to occasions
autumn, winter, game, long cooks
Your opposite profile
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