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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 990: Elevating Your Wild Game Cooking For the Holidays and Beyond with Jesse Griffiths

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week on the show we’re chatting with renowned chef Jesse Griffith about ideas and techniques for elevating your wild game cooking during the holidays and beyond.

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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind.

0:50.3

First Light, go farther, stay longer.

0:53.3

And now your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the White Light. Go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

0:56.9

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

0:59.6

This week on the show, I'm joined by renowned chef Jesse Griffith to talk through different ideas and techniques for elevating your wild game cooking during the holidays and beyond.

1:13.1

All right, welcome back to The Wired to Hunt podcast brought to you by First Light and their Camel for Conservation Initiative.

1:20.9

This week, as we head into the holiday season, we are talking cooking.

1:25.8

We're talking about wild game preparation,

1:29.5

uh, recipes, techniques, concepts around how to become a happier and more effective chef

1:39.0

and operating better in the kitchen, making your deer, your turkey, your upland birds, whatever

1:46.4

it is that you've put in the freezer this season, how do we best use that? How do we best

1:50.6

prepare that and share that with our friends and family over Christmas or the New Year's

1:56.9

or whenever you're listening to this? That's what we want to get to. And my guest is one of the

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