Jess teams up with legendary West Tennessee pitmaster and whole hog expert Pat Martin to cook a hog overnight and enjoy a special cut of beef from Australia.
Jess loves country hams and there's no better place to visit than Benton's--a family-run business that's been perfecting curing and aging techniques for over 50 years.
Jess embarks on a road trip across Wisconsin with her good friend Kaitlin, stopping for a cannibal sandwich and a famous sausage from Usinger's in Milwaukee.
At Devil's Hole Ranch, Jess learns to drive cattle and uses the farm's organic garlic to create a delicious meal featuring steak grilled over hot coals.
In windy Canyon, Texas, Jess visits West Texas A&M, where she interacts with a cloned cow, participates in a blind meat tasting experiment, and helps teach us how to break down a carcass into the cuts we see in the grocery store.
Jess joins her friend Javi in his backyard, where he welds custom cooking contraptions, including an asado cross they use to cook cabrito together.
It's not every day that you get to hunt alongside a game warden, but for this trip, Jess does just that when she meets up with her friend Chris to do some fall turkey hunting.
Jess reunites with her friend Shaundi to hunt nilgai for the first time, aiming to harvest its particularly lean and tender meat.
Jess reconnects with her friend Ryan, who first taught her to shoot and hunt. Together, they set out to bag a whitetail deer.
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 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.
Jess visits Northstar Bison to learn about the small family-run ranch's breeding and processing operation, then prepares her signature smash burger.
Jess pitches in at Cylon Rolling Acres as owner Leslie Svacina runs her direct-to-consumer goat meat business.
Jess and her good friends, Fort Worth pitmaster Joe Riscky and Chef Juan Rodriguez, prepare a traditional barbacoa feast.
Jess and her husband Chris head to their favorite hunting grounds, Redstone Ranch, situated in the heart of the migratory dove flyway.
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.
Jess visits the East Foundation in South Texas to participate in a fast-paced, yet careful and methodical deer capture.
Jess heads to Wyatt Ranches in South Texas to check out the cattle ranching operation they've been running since 1965.