Shane Mitchell

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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.

Oct 11, 2024 | saveur.com | Shane Mitchell

By Shane MitchellPublished on October 11, 2024“We used to drive around like an ice cream truck, park wherever, and we could get kicked out, but it was a bunch of fun,” says Lindsey Barrow, Jr., founder of Lowcountry Street Grocery (LSG) in Charleston, South Carolina. “Everybody’s into food here, so we have the culture, but local food is hard to get for some locals. For people who actually live and work in the area?