Cooking in the West

After my last week’s column about branding ran, several people contacted me to ask me to run my branding etiquette column again...so here it is once more.

An emergency room nurse once said to me, “Branding must be really dangerous, because we see a lot of people in the ER that have been hurt at a branding.” I suggested to her that one reason for that is that anymore many horsemen do not ride their horses enough to keep them highly trained. Many do not ride their horses often enough in the early spring, and then they hop on them to go branding, which sometimes boosts emergency room visits. In a...