MeatEater ambient background
CinebyCineby
MeatEater backdrop

MeatEater

MeatEater
★ 8.1/10•2012•22m•TV-14•Documentary
Similars

Killer hunts. Killer food.

Hunter, author, cook and conservationist Steven Rinella treks into the world's most remote, beautiful regions, bringing game meat from field to table.

StatusReturning Series
Runtime22m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 1, 2012

Episodes

Episode 1 - Into the Clouds: Sitka Blacktail DeerE122m

Into the Clouds: Sitka Blacktail Deer

Steve wants to hunt where few have hunted before. To gain access to pristine ground, he charters a float plane to drop him high in the Alpine zone of Alaska’s Coastal Rainforest at a little used landing spot. He plans to spend three days alone in the wild hunting for black tail deer. The primary challenges are steep and technically challenging terrain, drifting fog banks, and nearly incessant rain and snow. If he lands a black tail, Steve plans to cook up Rock-Pounded tenderloin to feast on before the float plane returns to bring him back to civilization.

Jan 1, 2012

Episode 2 - The Sweetest Meat: Alaskan Black BearE222m

The Sweetest Meat: Alaskan Black Bear

To find the best-tasting game meat, you have to earn it. As the cold Alaskan winter approaches, bears flock to the high country of Alaska's Chugach Range while feasting on cranberry and blueberry. As summer turns to fall, the bears have exhausted low-elevation fruit and their quest to fatten up pushes them into higher and less accesible terrain. The hard work and long hike pays off, as berry-fed black bears provide some of the finest tasting meat available to the American hunter. The meat is so good, that Steven Rinella plans to fry it in it’s own fat as a celebratory meal if he is lucky enough to land a bear on this trip.

Jan 8, 2012

Episode 3 - The Water's Edge: Waterfowl in AlaskaE322m

The Water's Edge: Waterfowl in Alaska

For a waterfowler's dream hunt, Steven Rinella joins his friend, the wildlife biologist Brandt Meixell, on a river boat journey to some untouched Alaska wetlands in search ducks and geese. Using tactics ranging from decoy hunting to jump shooting, they try to fill their boat and their bellies with a constant supply of duck meat. Featured meal is willow-spit roasted whole duck.

Apr 15, 2012

Episode 4 - The Rugged Peaks: Alaskan Mountain GoatE422m

The Rugged Peaks: Alaskan Mountain Goat

Every year, a handful of hunters draw a permit to hunt the Mills Creek region Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Steven Rinella holds one of the permits this year, and he and his brother Danny backpack into the mountains, into country they’ve never seen, in hopes of finding a billy goat. It’s a grueling hunt, and there’s the constant threat of losing your meat if the goat spills over a cliff.

Apr 8, 2012

Episode 5 - Stalking the Grey Ghost: Arizona Coues Whitetail DeerE522m

Stalking the Grey Ghost: Arizona Coues Whitetail Deer

To hunt some of the most elusive game, the predator must become its prey. Steven Rinella drew a tag to hunt the elusive Coues Deer in the stark mountains of southern Arizona, where his spot and stalk skills will be pushed to the limit hunting these tiny, ghostlike deer. To successfully take a deer Steve will have to become equally invisible, quiet, and attuned to his surroundings...he will need to become a desert ghost. In tune with the local culture, Steve will pack a small kit of tortillas, chiles, and all the fixings to prepare fire-grilled heart tacos.

Jan 15, 2012

Episode 6 - The New American Food Chain: Wild PigsE622m

The New American Food Chain: Wild Pigs

Wild Hogs can thrive almost anywhere - just like Steve. On this trip, Steven Rinella travels to the Sacramento Valley in central California in search of challenge and seriously good food. 300 years ago Spanish settlers let a handful of pigs loose in order to turn acorns into bacon, and today harvesting a wild pig for food is nexus of wild living and seriously good food. Rinella will prepare a backcountry gourmet feast of Pork Loin roasted with Apples and Rosemary cooked in tinfoil over a fire.

Jan 22, 2012

Episode 7 - Brotherhood, Badlands and Pack Llamas: Montana Mule DeerE722m

Brotherhood, Badlands and Pack Llamas: Montana Mule Deer

Along with a trio of cantankerous and spit-hurling pack llamas, Steven Rinella, along with his brother Matt and good friend Matt Moison camp and hunt in the arid and frozen badlands of Eastern Montana for mule deer. Freezing cold temperatures and unforgiving topography add to the already-challenging job of finding and stalking a Mule Deer buck. In this environment the deer have all of the advantage: they can spot, smell, and hear hunters long before they are anywhere near shooting range. To combat the freezing temperatures, Rinella plans to make a hunter's stew to celebrate a successful hunt.

Jan 29, 2012

Episode 8 - The Roughest Country: Texas Aoudad SheepE822m

The Roughest Country: Texas Aoudad Sheep

Steven Rinella heads into the Texas backcountry after one of the continent's most elusive feral animals -- the Barbary sheep, or Aoudad, of North Africa. For most hunters, just glimpsing one of these animals is a trophy. If Steve is lucky enough to land one of these sheep, he plans to cook them up in traditional hunter-style over a fire.

Mar 11, 2012

Episode 9 - Canyon Bottoms and Cookouts: Texas JavelinaE922m

Canyon Bottoms and Cookouts: Texas Javelina

Steven Rinella takes to the thorns and thickets of a West Texas canyon in search of javelina. Smelling the animals is easy, but getting a clear shot with a bow is a whole other story. Featured meal is boiled javelina with cactus pears.

Apr 1, 2012

Episode 10 - Big Bucks and Small Game: Wisconsin Whitetail DeerE1022m

Big Bucks and Small Game: Wisconsin Whitetail Deer

Steven Rinella heads to Wisconsin to spend a few days on his buddy’s historical family farm. He will enlist other locals to help him hunt for a big buck or tasty doe in the cold upper reaches of the state. Featured meal is Butterflied Venison Steaks and Hassenpfeffer (Peppered Hare Stew).

Apr 22, 2012

Actors

Steven Rinella

Steven Rinella

Self - Host

Recommendations

The Hunt
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Mysteries at the Museum
Limitless with Chris Hemsworth
Super/Natural
Marvel Studios Assembled
Marvel Studios Legends
Pole to Pole with Will Smith
The Food That Built America
Nature's Great Events
Savage Kingdom
Top Gear
A Perfect Planet
History's Greatest Mysteries
The Circus
Snapped
American Experience
Superpowered: The DC Story

Similars

The Hunt
The Rich Tradition
The F Word
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
How She Rolls
Benefit Busters
The Huntsman
Chef's Table
Monks in the Kitchen
New British Kitchen
The Hairy Bikers Go West
Rick Stein's Food Stories
Gordon's Great Escape
A Cook's Tour
Robert Maklowicz's Culinary Travels
Black As
The Hairy Bikers Go North
Jamie at Home
Recipes from Hell's Kitchen
Jurassic Fight Club