How to Clean Gizzards

It seems like folks are either really passionate about eating octopus or really passionate about not. I don't discriminate my meals by only choosing animals that us humans deem as dumb—and I actually believe that chickens, pigs, and most creatures we consume are far more intelligent than we give...

Diver ducks, migratory waterfowl that feed on fish, mollusks, and aquatic invertebrates, get a lot of praise on the wing but a bad rap at the table. Despite this reputation, hunters sure shoot a hell of a lot of them each season. According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the take of shovelers...

There’s a common misconception that eating the liver from an animal is, to quote Dick Gregory, like eating the filter out of a car. If the liver is the body’s primary filtration system, it must contain all the toxins it pulls from the blood, right? Not so. All the toxic compounds that the liver...