“I was reticent,” says Katie, 33, of her first squirrel-eating experience. at Amazon and is five months pregnant - is even known to partake in his meals. His powerful fashionista wife - who heads p.r. He’s no off-the-grid kook - even if skulls and antlers do adorn the walls of his living room. It was part of the culinary lexicon,” says the suntanned and athletic hunter as he drinks coffee in the spacious kitchen of his new Brooklyn Heights apartment. “Squirrel was a thing people ate where I lived. The meal of choice is also of questionable taste - but not for Rinella.
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Hunting squirrel by trap is technically illegal in New York state (and the state-approved methods of capture - by hunting bow or firearm - are banned in New York City) - but, since they are nuisance animals, according to the state’s Environmental Conservation Law, they may be killed at any time in any manner by the owners or occupants if they are injuring property. “The method is of very questionable legality,” he admits in the book. That includes rigging up snap-type rat traps to capture the small game, skinning them over his kitchen sink, cooking them with a “Jamie Oliver-inspired” recipe and serving the resulting dish - lemon-thyme squirrel - to his wife, Katie.
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“Sometimes, I get such a craving for squirrel meat that I’ll go to extremes to get it,” writes Rinella, 38, in his new hunting memoir, “Meat Eater,” out Sept. So when he moved to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, six years ago, and squirrels began showing up by the dozen to steal the ripening tomatoes from his apartment’s 800-square-foot garden, he figured he’d make a meal out of them, too. Steven Rinella grew up hunting and eating squirrel in rural Twin Lake, Mich.