Shane Mitchell

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By Shane MitchellPublished on May 30, 2025Food is more than what’s on the plate. This is Equal Portions, a series by editor-at-large Shane Mitchell, investigating bigger issues and activism in the food world, and how a few good eggs are working to make it better for everyone. ​​  “When you make imu, especially when you’re dealing with food, you gotta come from love,” says Iopa Maunakea, the executive director of Men of PA‘A, a mutual-aid nonprofit founded in 2004.

Feb 25, 2025 | saveur.com | Shane Mitchell

Nov 15, 2024 | saveur.com | Shane Mitchell

By Shane MitchellPublished on November 15, 2024Food is more than what’s on the plate. This is Equal Portions, a series by editor-at-large Shane Mitchell, investigating bigger issues and activism in the food world, and how a few good eggs are working to make it better for everyone.

Oct 29, 2024 | saveur.com | Shane Mitchell

By Shane MitchellPublished on October 29, 2024I don’t hunt, but I do forage for mushrooms come fall. This recipe for skillet quail with mushroom gravy is an homage to my father-in-law, who always had a freezer full of tiny birds. He liked to drown them in Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup—before I married in, that is. Most farmed quail come spatchcocked (Campo Grande’s are terrific), with breast bones removed, which makes for easy pan-frying in a cast iron skillet.

Oct 29, 2024 | saveur.com | Shane Mitchell

By Shane MitchellPublished on October 29, 2024All things game are not always wild, and all things wild aren’t always fair game. Last fall, walking in my backwoods, I found a poacher had erected a portable blind and set out leftover Halloween pumpkins as deer bait. Not only did this trespassing flout Department of Environmental Conservation regulations—it also pissed me off, coming from a long line of Southern hunters who always stick to the rules.