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Kevin Kossowan

Kevin Kossowan

Filmmaker, forager, and wild food guide; creator of the James Beard Award-nominated documentary series "From the Wild."

Jul 17, 2026

36:42
in a good way though
36:43
yeah in a good and powerfully flavor forward way um yeah briefly i described pronghorn is complex but delicate and sandhill is like complex but bold so there's all kinds of things going on that are that your brain is just like i i'm not computing not computing uh which which makes it like uh of course a treasure and and uh means we need to do some homework on how do we best use this in in the kitchen i don't think it's If you think beef and you think stir fries and I mentioned ginger beef or Korean Calbee kind of flavor profile.
37:25
Or honestly, I think I mentioned beef.
37:28
I was like, oh, and then I thought, oh, man, if this was rolled in black peppercorns and then grilled, holy cow, you could totally sell this to somebody that it was...
37:38
Although, again, I don't think I could be fooled ever because it's all those other layers of complexity that are not subtle.
37:45
Those other layers of complexity, I think, are cranked up a fair bit, at least for my brain.
37:52
There's a lot going on.
39:16
um but geese don't turn my crank yeah uh especially snow geese uh specks or white fronted geese they're okay i was
5:22
Was it that, that food angle that got you to make the jump from finance to filmmaking? Or was it more, was there something else in
5:34
it? No, it was general hatred of my former career, maybe, was one of the reasons.
5:40
But also, I used to be heavily involved in music and still do.
5:45
Like this morning, I was writing score.
5:50
And that, at a point, I was playing in a band a lot as a young adult and then got out of that because I started having young kids and babies in the house.
6:02
And when that kind of ended the musical arc of my earlier adulthood, there was kind of a big creative gap, I guess, and food filled it.
6:11
And I started traveling a bunch and got really interested in food.

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