Receta On Eating Sage Grouse

Photo by Hank Shaw I am here to tell you that eating sage grouse is not the chore you think it is.

Of all the game birds in America, none is more maligned than Centrocercus urophasianus, the greater sage grouse. This particular grouse is native to our great Western High Desert, roughly centering on Wyoming, and reaching out to California, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Colorado, and, to a limit extent, the far western Dakotas and southern Alberta.

It is a bird wholly of the sage. I wrote about hunting these birds — and of the need to work to save their habitat — in this space recently, but this post is all about eating sage grouse.

First, know that sage grouse eat sage.

Sometimes it is all they eat. And…