Jess Pryles is a live fire cook and meat scientist. She travels the country to meet up with locals specializing in her favorite proteins.

Jess joins the lamb-raising Siddoway family as they begin sorting the animals that are ready for processing. She then returns to the lodge, where she demonstrates how to prepare and grill lamb ribs.

Jess joins her friend Javi in his backyard, where he welds custom cooking contraptions, including an asado cross they use to cook cabrito together.

Jess and her friend Shaundi Campbell meet up with guides from Juniper Mountain Ranch in southeastern Idaho to cull an elk for her smoked elk sandwiches.

With the help of a local Oklahoma guide, Jess sets out to hunt an axis deer, then shares butchery techniques and prepares a delicious backstrap grilled over live fire.