The Wild Harvest Table is at once a culinary resource for wild fish and game cooking and an opportunity to study and influence citizen’s decision-making about procuring, preparing, and consuming wild fish and game. Research objectives include: 1) determining the importance of wild fish and game consumption to food security in local NYS communities; 2) evaluating why people are motivated to eat, or not eat, wild fish and game; 3) examining the importance or “legibility” of nutritional analysis for wild fish and game, and the way labeling influences consumer choices; and, 4) determining how people learn about processing and preparing wild fish and game, and barriers to finding and adopting this information. Nutrition facts are included, though some species do not have nutrition information available. Part of our research is investigating this gap in nutrition information for wild game and fish species. Read more.