This rustic dish is the perfect vehicle for any game bird — cacciatore means “hunter” in Italian — but pheasant works particularly well given how similar it is to the more familiar chicken.

One of the most common items I’m asked how to use is wild game. Coming from a hunting family, I have plenty of experience working with various game. While many of the questions refer to the 30 pounds ...

Chicken or guinea hen may be substituted for the pheasant; squab, wood pigeon, or red-leg partridge may also be substituted, but cooking time should be reduced -- a 1-pound squab will take 16 minutes ...

Many people find pheasant dry, tough and gamey. Jason Hill thinks they’re just cooking it wrong. “If you look at old, old recipes for pheasant dating back hundreds of years ago, it’s a very low flame ...