Roasting fish that's encased inside a salt crust is a centuries-old method of ensuring moist, ultra-flavorful flesh. — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
Driving a race car isn't too far a cry from driving any other sports car, but driving one through Africa in the… — Jonathan Miles Car Copy Share Image
So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a… — Jonathan Miles Horse Copy Share Image
You can't rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too… — Jonathan Miles Bermuda Copy Share Image
A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew - often served, like chipped beef, over toast - that was a delicacy… — Jonathan Miles Beef Copy Share Image
A combination of stir-fry and salad, Lok Lak is a popular staple in Cambodia. It's usually made with beef, but in olden… — Jonathan Miles Beef Copy Share Image
Technically, fish can last up to half a year in a freezer, but their quality starts to slide after the first month. — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool,… — Jonathan Miles Animal Copy Share Image
Vitello tonnato is a classic dish from Italy's Piedmont region that, frankly, sounds patently insane: veal slices dressed in a creamy sauce… — Jonathan Miles Brain Copy Share Image
Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds… — Jonathan Miles Fat Copy Share Image
Though little known in the U.S., the Dakar is a sports juggernaut in Europe, where France's state broadcasting company runs more than… — Jonathan Miles Europe Copy Share Image
With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat… — Jonathan Miles Cigars Copy Share Image
After a solid day of fishing, I'm craving something hearty. That's where a jug of buttermilk comes in. Poaching fish in buttermilk… — Jonathan Miles Craving Copy Share Image
Poyha is a venison dish handed down from the Cherokee tribe. You can think of it as a meatloaf, which it is,… — Jonathan Miles Dish Copy Share Image
It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles,… — Jonathan Miles Bird Copy Share Image
Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy… — Jonathan Miles Australia Copy Share Image
The best largemouth bass fishing I've ever encountered was at Lake Huites, a vast impoundment on the outskirts of the Sierra Madre… — Jonathan Miles Bass Copy Share Image
For me, there's something likable but not quite lovable about poached fish: the ultraclean flavor, the melt-away texture, the no-fat virtuousness. — Jonathan Miles About Copy Share Image
The perfect way for an angler who loves to cook to show off his fish is serving it whole, fresh off the… — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
Loading a hollowed-out loaf of bread with steak, mushrooms, shallots, and a fat dose of horseradish yields a kind of portable beef… — Jonathan Miles Bread Copy Share Image
The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. — Jonathan Miles College Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them -… — Jonathan Miles Art Copy Share Image
More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the… — Jonathan Miles Cleaning Copy Share Image
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as… — Jonathan Miles Anything Copy Share Image
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed… — Jonathan Miles Adaptation Copy Share Image
For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely. — Jonathan Miles Alcohol Copy Share Image
Young men feel they have much to prove; older men, as a very general rule, tend to feel more comfortable in their… — Jonathan Miles General Copy Share Image
Paddleboarding is what happens when you want to kayak on a surfboard or surf a kayak: You stand atop a board paddling… — Jonathan Miles Around Copy Share Image
Anyone with a fondness for intricately flavored, carefully measured cocktails and entertaining at home knows how poorly the two mix. — Jonathan Miles Cocktails Copy Share Image
Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you're likely to encounter a lot of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup.… — Jonathan Miles Deer Copy Share Image
In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are… — Jonathan Miles Breasts Copy Share Image
Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something… — Jonathan Miles Books Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could… — Jonathan Miles Canadian Copy Share Image
An early remedy for malaria called for tossing the sufferer, Br'er Rabbit-style, into a prickly bush; in his hasty retreat, went the… — Jonathan Miles Early Copy Share Image
A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which… — Jonathan Miles Attention Copy Share Image
Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the… — Jonathan Miles Absence Copy Share Image
You pray for days when the crappie fishing is so relentlessly good that you're giggling like a kid and the only things… — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors;… — Jonathan Miles Africa Copy Share Image
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by… — Jonathan Miles Appear Copy Share Image
