Cooking in the West

To many of us, Independence Day is celebrated with rodeo. I hope that as you are celebrating this year with big beef burgers and a rodeo and hopefully no fireworks due to the extreme fire danger in this drought, you take some time to reflect on this amazing country that we are lucky to live in. I am pretty sure that I have gone to a rodeo on the fourth of July almost every year of my life.

One of the best explanations of what rodeo is about was written by an amazing young rodeo cowboy that I have the privilege of knowing, Chance Story. I asked Chance if I could use his essay about rodeo to hel...