Golden Pheasant Curry is a delicious new way to serve game bird

Editor's Note: This is a limited series featuring wild game recipes from local wild game chef Jeff Benda, author of the Wild Game Fish Cookbook. More content is available on his website, wildgameandfish.com, and Instagram. Anyone who has hunted pheasants in North Dakota knows the pleasure of a cold walk through cattails and prairie grass when a rooster suddenly erupts in front of you. There s the thunder of wings, the flash of that long tail and, if everything goes right, a bird to carry home at the end of the day. For generations of hunters, pheasant season has been woven into North Dakota's autumn. It brings families and friends together, fills small-town cafes and sends hunters walking shelterbelts, grasslands, and cattail sloughs across the state. And bringing home a pheasant also comes with a responsibility I take seriously: once the hunt is over, we should know how to turn that bird into something worthy of the effort it took to put it on the table. My wi