Books & Literature

In the latest installment of MeatEater’s American History, Steven Rinella brings to life the legendary wilderness exploits of mountain men such as Jim Bridger, Jedidiah Smith, and Hugh Glass, who headed out to the Rocky Mountains to trap beavers in the decades following the Louisiana Purchase...

Join Steven Rinella in his latest adventures as he dives into history’s greatest and most perplexing wilderness mysteries in Hunting History. With his deep knowledge of the wild, survival expertise, and unyielding curiosity and grit, Steve is uniquely positioned to look at these mysteries through a...

The MeatEater Crew is hitting the road for the MeatEater U: Mountain Men Tour! Join Steven Rinella and Randall Williams at one of three university stops to explore the untamed world of a celebrated and misunderstood group of nineteenth-century outdoorsmen: the Mountain Men. At each school, Steve and...

The third edition of our Campfire Stories audiobook series is out in the world. It’s got more of the close calls you’ve come to love, plus stories about amazing finds and revelations in the outdoors. There’s a story about a helicopter crash, the tale of a hunter whose remains were lost for more than...

We’re thrilled to announce our newest addition to the MeatEater games universe: MeatEater Crossword Puzzles! If you’re a fan of MeatEater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins, then these puzzles are for you. Every Wednesday morning, we’ll drop a new crossword right here on our...

Wild + Whole founder Danielle Prewett believes that every meal should tell a story, and that sustainable eating starts by reawakening our connection to food and relying on the seasons and the inherent rhythms of nature to guide our choices. In her debut cookbook, Wild + Whole, she shares the...

We are pleased to announce that The MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook: Wild Game Recipes for the Grill, Smoker, Campstove, and Campfire is now available! Check out an excerpt from the introduction below. “One summer, when I was nine or ten, my dad put me to work with a hammer and chisel removing the old...

I am beyond excited to share that my debut cookbook, Wild + Whole, is available for pre-order! With over 80 seasonal recipes for cooking with wild game and eating consciously, Wild + Whole celebrates a diversity of ingredients found in nature throughout any given point in the year. This book is one...

I’ll always remember the bookshelves. They rose from the floor to the ceiling in my parent’s old house, their spines gleamed in the light through the window. With the rustling of loose pages from haphazardly stacked volumes fluttering gently in the breeze of the air conditioning, they almost seemed...

We’re so excited to announce a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: The Long Hunters (1761-1775). This is the beginning of a big project, and this is only the first installment of MeatEater...

I’m not sure what it is about fly fishing that’s made it such fertile ground for reading and writing, but there’s something there, just beneath the water’s glassy surface. Despite fly fishing participation representing a small slice of the larger hunting and fishing world, books written about the...

Storytelling tends to feed off of itself. One person shares a harrowing tale, that tale jogs the memory of another storyteller, and the cycle goes on until the sun is rising and the stack of firewood is depleted. After the first batch of Campfire Stories became an instant New York Times bestseller...