NEW BERLIN, WI (July 28, 2014) - Steven Rinella, host of Sportsman Channel's MeatEater returns for a Season Four recap week beginning Monday, July 28 at 7 p.m. ET. The marathon leads viewers into the premiere of Season Five on Thursday, July 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. In the season premiere, Rinella channels American pioneer Daniel Boone as he travels in the footsteps of the famed frontiersman throughout Southeastern Kentucky. Rinella attempts to harvest an eastern elk for the first time to include in a mouthwatering meal thought to be one of Boone's all-time favorites.
Rinella begins his hunt for elk in "Coal Country," an area thriving on the spirit of Boone, American pioneer and Rinella's hero. Rinella is hoping to catch a glimpse of an elk. To keep with MeatEater's "field to plate" format, he will cook up a dish of elk liver. The host discovers harvesting his quarry will be a completely different game, but he is ready and willing to master the hunt and obstacles that stand in his way.
"Kentucky was once traveled by one of America's greatest pioneers and frontiersmen," said Rinella. "Hunting and preparing Daniel Boone's favorite wild-game - on the same land he once charted - is a great way to pay homage to an explorer who grew up in the great outdoors hunting what his family needed to survive."
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About Steven Rinella: Steven Rinella is an avid outdoorsman, writer, and television personality best known for his ability to translate the hunting lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. He is the author of The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, the award-winning American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, and most recently, Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter. He's a correspondent for Outside magazine, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, O the Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, and more traditional hunting and fishing publications like Field and Stream and Petersen's Hunting.
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