Protecting our Hunter Heritage One Event at a Time

The year was 1998. In a small private dining room of a neighborhood restaurant in Asheville North Carolina, three generations of sportsmen gathered to celebrate their Hunter Heritage as food providers. Each of them had given the Chef of the restaurant a variety of wild game meats that they had harvested. The Chef turned what some folks would consider freezer fodder into a feast beyond compare.

There were elk steaks, venison roasts, venison tenderloin, fresh mountain trout, ruffed grouse, quail and even fried largemouth bass. The Chef carefully paired each dish with seasonal garnishes and delicious sauces. The hunters were blown away by what he had done. What they enjoyed that day was so far from the pan fried, deep fried, grilled or stewed wild game meat preparations that they were trying to enjoy at home with their friends and family.

This wild game meal was prepared in a way that ANYONE would love it!

Over the next several years, GameDinner.com Founder Joe Lasher continued to organize the annual Wild Game Dinner Event. In much the same fashion, hunters and anglers would donate meat and the Chef would turn it into a feast fit for a king. Before too many years had gone by, the mostly male attendance turned into husbands and wives. The men were using the event to introduce their non-hunting spouse, or friends, to wild game meats they had harvested and, subsequently, to our outdoor lifestyle. It was at that moment, Joe Lasher wrote the mission statement. To take wild game meats from the field and stream to the main stream one event at a time.

Since then, Joe Lasher and his friend and executive Chef, Allen Dye, have introduced thousands of non-hunting and non-fishing meat eating people to professionally prepared wild game meats through a number of GameDinner.com sponsored events. In 2007, GameDinner.com partnered with the National Non-Profit, Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry, an organization also dedicated to promoting and protecting our Hunter Heritage as food providers. Together, they have raised thousands of dollars to feed thousands of needy people all over the country meals of lean, healthy, hunter harvested venison.

If you would like to host a Game Dinner event, please complete the information request form and submit it to our event team. If you would like to attend an event, check our event calendar for upcoming opportunities.