Hank Shaw

A lifelong angler. sometimes commercial fisherman, and former chef, Hank Shaw has caught and cooked fish and seafood in nearly every state and province in the US and Canada over the course of nearly 45 years. He is the author of four award-winning cookbooks, most recently Pheasant, Quail, Cottontail, which won the IACP Award for best self-published book in 2019. Shaw also runs the James Beard Award-winning website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook (huntgathercook.com). He has been featured on numerous television shows, including Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods and CNN’s Somebody’s Gotta Do It with Mike Rowe. His work has appeared in Food & Wine, Organic Gardening, Field & Stream, Garden & Gun, and The Art of Eating. Shaw fishes, forages and hunts near Sacramento, California.