If you’ve never cooked elk, a chicken-fried elk steak recipe is the perfect place to start. I’m from the Mountain West, and elk has always been part of my family’s kitchen—especially in the fall, when ...

While my Wyoming elk tag has so far gone unfilled, my friend Tess was luckier, tagging her first elk in a Nebraska cornfield not long ago. A heat wave prompted us to spend all day Sunday butchering ...