Wild Game Chef

Rick grew up in northeastern Washington where he was immersed in the outdoors. Hunting and harvesting played a major part of his family's sustainability. He butchered the family’s farm animals, and hunted wild game and fished in the great Columbia River.

After high school, Rick moved to Montana and worked his way through college as a fishing guide and later a hunting guide. In 2008 he started a wilderness steelhead fishing lodge in Southeast Alaska.  Here he brings clients along to experience the satisfaction of catching and cooking your own food.  A major part of his Alaska program is catching the ingredients for the next meal.  He has taken this ability for providing fresh food to clients to the next level by helping hunters learn to field dress, age and store meat for delicious results in meals for their friends and family. So often the family of hunters put down the taste of wild game. When prepared correctly, all parts of the animal can be remarkably delicious. Let Rick work with you to prepare your wild game for a healthy meal with an animal you provided to your family and friends. 

At Wild Game Chef, we want to educate and inspire people to hunt wild game to provide meat for their family. We want to share with hunters how to process the animal all yourself to utilize more of the meat, bones and organs for a far larger variety of dishes to experiment with. It is our hope that hunters will want to expand their skills in the field and play more of a role in the breakdown and preservation of their harvest. After more of the animal is ready for use, we want to share our unique ideas of how to prepare both exotic dishes and new tastes with traditional dishes. We want to be creative with hunters and anglers to cater to their taste preferences.

Rick loves the process of wild sustainability.  To catch or harvest your own food and turn it into something truly delicious and unique is a privilege that a lot of people don’t understand today.  There is much more an animal has to offer than a caloric value.  A different kind of appreciation comes with being a part of your harvesting and preparing your food every step of the way. It is through food that we connect to our primal instincts to hunt and gather.

As an avid hunter and angler for nearly all his life, Rick has honed in on age-old methods of harvesting and preserving and new modern ways of preparing meals. Rick wants to share his knowledge of how to break down, preserve and prepare wild  game and fish to make an end product even tastier and more appealing to the senses.