Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison

Jennifer Bain is an award-winning food writer and food editor at the Toronto Star. She is the author of The Toronto Star Cookbook: More Than 150 Diverse and Delicious Recipes Celebrating Ontario. Follow her on Twitter at @thesaucylady.

"Reviewing the 100-plus recipes in this photo-rich 240-page book, it's clear that [Bain] has discovered delicious ways to cook [bison] ... she has smartly divided the book into user-friendly chapters dedicated to [specific cuts] and provides dishes for every season." -Times Colonist The Buffalo Girl provides some background on the animal that inspired her and shares a delicious recipe in a guest post for Slow Food USA. Jennifer Bain addresses the buffalo/bison name debate and how delicious it is, no matter what you call it, in a guest post for Slow Food in Canada. "Each palate pleasing, appetite satisfying bison meat recipe is thoroughly 'kitchen cook friendly.' A unique and original specialty cookbook, Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to personal, professional, family, and community library cookbook collections." -Midwest Book Review The Toronto Star shared an excerpt and recipes from Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison. Metro Daily News featured the recipe for Karen's Flying D Chili, a favourite from Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison. The Test Kitchen at Canadian Living was inspired by Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison to try a few recipes. The Tallest Poppy's Pulled Bison "was very good, the flavour was similar to beef, but taken up a notch. Someone in the Test Kitchen even referred to it as 'a stampede of flavour.'" -Canadian Living (includes recipe) "A surprisingly diverse creation ... it is a cookbook, but it's also a compelling history text, and a selection of stories about bison." -The Edmonton Journal (includes recipe)