It might be a bit too late to change this year’s Thanksgiving menu, but fans of the local food movement might consider putting venison on the menu next November. Jackson Landers, a local insurance broker and brother of CvilleNews.com founder Waldo Jaquith, recently spoke with the New York Times about his "Deer Hunting for Locavores" course. Landers wrote on his own blog that, in the most recent class, "[a] group of nine people went from zero to sixty as locavore hunters in space of only a few months."
The Times website offers a four-minute video featuring comments from Landers and his students, and a nice shot of the "backstrap," a choice cut of venison. (Recipes here.) "Your great-grandfather would be ashamed of you," one class member teases another who shared his lack of hunting experience. For more on Landers’ class, visit his blog here.
