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Smoked Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers: A Wyoming Backyard Smoker Staple

Bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers with cheese and dipping sauce on a wooden board

Crispy smoked bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers with creamy cheese filling — the tailgate and backyard-smoker appetizer that always steals the show.

Homemade Venison Sausage: Turning Wild Game Trim Into the Best Sausage You’ll Ever Eat

Seasoned sausage links on butcher paper with herbs, knife, and grinder

Make juicy homemade venison sausage from your own deer or elk. Fat ratios, cold-grind technique, safe temps, and easy patty or link options.

Cowboy Coffee, Properly Made: A Real How-To for a Grit-Free Cup

Steaming coffee pot over a campfire beside a tent at sunrise

Cowboy coffee done right: exact ratios, off-the-boil water temp, grind size, and troubleshooting for a bold, grit-free camp cup. A real how-to from Wyo Food.

How Wyoming Ranches Actually Eat at Branding

Ranch hands sharing barbecue at a picnic table near horses and a barn

Inside the Wyoming branding-day meal: reciprocal ranch labor, Rocky Mountain oysters, beef, beans, and pie — and what the table says about community.

Pheasant Pot Pie: A Wyoming Upland Bird Done Right

Slice of golden chicken pot pie lifted on a serving utensil

A homestyle pheasant pot pie built for lean wild upland birds — gently poached, wrapped in a flaky crust. Wyoming wild-game cooking from Wyo Food.

Altitude Chophouse & Brewery: Laramie’s Steak-and-Beer Institution at 7,200 Feet

Steak, vegetables, wheat beer, and chalkboard reading “Cask & Kettle Brewpub.”

Altitude Chophouse & Brewery has brewed its own beer and grilled Laramie’s steaks since 1999. Here’s what to know before you go — food, beer, and tips.

Smoked Goose Breast Pastrami: Turning Wild Canada Geese Into Deli-Style Meat

Sliced pepper-crusted duck breast with mustard sauce, rye bread, and ale

Turn wild Canada goose breasts into deli-style pastrami — cured, smoked, and steamed. A Wyoming waterfowl recipe from Wyo Food.

Sugar Beets, Water, and Hard Work: The History Behind the Big Horn Basin’s Sweetest Crop

Potato harvesters and tractors working in a field beneath mountains

The story of sugar beets in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin: Worland’s Holly Sugar factory, the irrigation that made it possible, and the workers who built it.

Wyoming Whiskey Old Fashioned: A Classic Built for Cold Wyoming Nights

Glass of whiskey with ice and garnish next to Wyoming Whiskey bottle on wooden bar

A classic Old Fashioned built on Wyoming Whiskey from Kirby. Sean’s cold-weather technique, tips, and variations for the perfect cozy bourbon cocktail.

The Irma Hotel, Cody: Prime Rib, a Street Gunfight, and Buffalo Bill’s Tall Tale of a Bar

Group of men in cowboy attire engaged in a gunfight outside a wooden saloon in a dusty frontier town

Buffalo Bill built the Irma Hotel in Cody, WY. Here’s the real history, the prime rib, the summer street gunfight, and the truth about that famous bar.