Friends from the Sporting Road
First, our four-legged friends make our adventures on the Sporting Road possible.
Second, we have made a lot of two-legged friends along the Sporting Road as well. Here’s a list of just a few of them:
G. Marvin Beeman, MFH and DVM, Arapahoe Hunt
Rim Chung, master nymph fisherman and inventor of the RS2, Plebby and Avatar
Barry Conyers
The Dennehys
Pat Dorsey
Mike Gould
John Hagen
Jane Hall
Roger Hill
Jeff Hill, Esq.
Nick Sawyer
Len McDaniel
Paul McDaniel
Ferenc Horvath
Some of our favorite authors, other than those listed above and some of which are also friends or acquaintances, are:
A.K. Best
Pat Dorsey
Frederick M. Halford
Edward Hewitt
Oliver Kite
Migel/Wright
T. Donald Overfield
Jim Quick
G.E.M. Skues
Bob Saile
Ray Ovington
Datus Proper
John Gierach
Terry Lawton
Paul Fauceglia
PatO’Reilly
Marty Bartholemew
Ernest Scweibert
Doug Swisher
John Voelkner
Ed Engle
Charles E. Brooks
Shooting & Bird Dogs
Bill Tarrant
Mike Gould
Michael McIntosh
Robert Churchill
Guy de la Valdene
Tom Huggler
Bill Tarrant
Steven Rinella, author o Meat EaterAmerican Buffalo, and The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisinef
Joel M. Vance
Dennis Walrod
Charlie Waterman
Sir Joseph Nickerson
Mike Swan
Thomas Hugler
Robert Wehle
Buddy Levy
Lucky McDaniel
J. G. Ruffner
William Beebe
Ken Davies
Mike Jennings
Charles Fergus
Gene Hill
Paul A. Johnsgard
Eric Parker
Ben O. Williams
Corey Ford
Gordon MacQuarrie
Gene Hill, Burton
George Bird Evans
Nash Buckingham
Ray Holland
Peter Byrne,
Jack O’Connor
William Harnden Foster
Frank Woolner
Charlie Waterman
Joel Vance
William Faulkner
Theodore Roosevelt
Zane Gray
Foxhunting
R.S. Surtees
Joseph B. Thomas
Michael Clayton
George H. Morris
Count Toptani
Almet Jenks
Gordon Grand
Cecil Aldin
A.Henry Higginson
Duke of Beaufort
Benjamin H. Hardawy III
MelvinPoe
Sassoon
Gordon Wright
Jim Meads
Hugh Robards
Anne Kursinski
Vicky Moon
Lt. Co.l. Harry D. Chamberlin
Lawrence Phipps III, MFH
Janet George
Polo
Peter Grace
Marco Polo
Hufh Dawnay
Philosophy
Confucius
Alan Watts
Robert M. Pirsig
D. T. Suzuki
Thomas Moore
Voltaire
Rousseau
Dali Lama
Lao Tzu
Kahlil Gibran
Travel
Peter Mayle
Rick Steves
Cooking and Cuisine
Auguste Escoffier
Thomas Keller
Steven Rinella
James Beard
Ferran Adria
Herve This
Joy of Cooking by Erma Rombauer
Barefoot Contessa
Silver Palate and The New Basics by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso
Grand Livre de Cuisine: Alain Ducasse’s Culinary Encyclopedia
Alexandre Dumas, Grand Dictionaire de Cuisine, who recommends deglazing a glass of white wine and a few drops of pastis
Mario Batali
Bobbie Flay
Jacques Pepin (my favorite, rent all of the Jaques and Julia Series to see why, Jacques is not the stuffy one, Julia is and she’s not even French)
Martha Stewart’s Healthy Quick Cooking is her best selling title.
Emeril Lagasse
Paula Deen
Ernest Hemingway
Jim Harrison