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...Gist: Rinella one-ups his previous book, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (we're talking pigeons, sparrows, raccoons, etc.), by going after the massive and mythical buffalo. "In the spring of 2005," he writes, "the state of Alaska announced that it was issuing twenty-four hunting permits for the Copper River buffalo herd." He and 1,302 other hunters sent in their applications. Rinella won a permit, and off he went, on both a literal and an intellectual expedition, hoping to get one of the creatures in his rifle sights while also exploring the history, misconceptions and science...
...burning buffalo dung - "At times I've dipped my face into the smoke and picked up the odors of cinnamon and cloves, dried straw and pumpkins" - you know it's going to be a dirty read. But there's really no other way to talk about hunting, and Rinella's tale of tracking buffalo in Alaska is alluringly visceral in its description. His multichapter description of killing, skinning and chopping up a buffalo cow is alternately stomach-turning and riveting. It's easy to understand the allure of hunting, of respecting and living off the land, under Rinella's unsentimental...
...daughter of two Soviet mathematicians, Tsarkova, 19, is currently a student at Latvia State University. She said she decided to apply to Harvard on the advice of Rinella, who travelled to the Soviet Union on a Harvard-sponsored trip last spring...
...Rinella said that he was intrigued by the young Soviet and offered to help her apply to Harvard when he learned of her interest in studying...
...Natalya just had an opinion on everything--you know, `I think this, or I think that,'" Rinella said. "She's a very spirited young woman...