A South Dakota buffalo ranch is being featured on the Food Network. The Wild Idea Buffalo ranch outside of Rapid City was chosen as the location for one of the Network’s latest challenges – the “Great Food Truck Race”.
Jill O’Brien and her husband Dan own the Wild Idea ranch. She says the Food Network chose to film at their ranch because they liked the fact that the Wild Idea buffalo are one-hundred percent grass-fed, free-roaming, and are harvested in the field.
O’Brien says she was happy to have the Food Network crew.
“They said they’re coming to South Dakota. They wanted to have their segment based around buffalo meat. So when they contacted us they wanted to film at the ranch and get some lovely shots of the bison on the prairie. They also wanted their chefs to participate in a competition of cutting up a quarter of a buffalo,” says O’Brien.
O’Brien says the chefs prepared the buffalo in a variety of ways. She says buffalo can take the place of beef in many common dishes like spaghetti, stroganoff, chili, and sloppy Joes. O’Brien says South Dakota has the largest population of buffalo in the country. The episode is scheduled to air on the Food Network on Sunday, September 8th.