A. D. Livingston, a longtime columnist for Gray's Sporting Journal, is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks for Lyons Press, including Jerky; Cast-Iron Cooking; Cold-Smoking and Salt-Curing Meat; Fish, and Game; Sausage; The Whole Grain Cookbook; The Freshwater Fish Cookbook; and The Curmudgeon's Book of Skillet Cooking. He cooks, fishes, hunts, and writes in Wewahitchka, Florida.