Angelo Georgalli is taking me rabbit hunting.

We’re climbing the Isthmus Peak track, a gravel track surrounded by tussocks leading up to the 4,544-foot saddle between Lakes Wanaka and Hawea in the Southern Alps of New Zealand’s South Island. Georgalli carries his compound bow in a light grip in his left hand, moving slowly and silently up the frost-covered track. On a ridgeline he freezes, scanning the area.

“Do you see anything?” I whisper.

“Yes—pure beauty,” he smiles.

Georgalli is the star of The Game Chef, a combination hunting and cooking show—set to air internationally on the National Geographic Channel—on which he bowhunts or fly-fishes for game, then promptly turns his quarry into an exquisite meal over an open fire. During one episode, he