Is it bad that I love your introductions as much as the foodie thoughts? We have a similar problem down here about eating possum - the thought of which makes my stomach flip - whereas the thought of squid for dinner is quite delicious. Ridiculous how blinkered we are. Analiese Gregory is tackling the problem of possum, but I'm yet to try it. Thanks for a fabulous morning read. x
I remember being in the Faroe Islands, which are surrounded by the kind of cold, clean Northern waters that make for excellent shellfish, and learning that, although the sea was full of what turned out to be the best langoustines I have ever eaten, few locals consumed them, finding them kind of gross (to say nothing of far more profitable when sold to Spain). Same went for an isolated peninsula in furthest Scotland--it took a literal famine before the crofters there would deign to eat their waters' abundant and fantastic prawns. So blinkered is right. That said, I'm from a part of the world that is also home to possums, and it's never occurred to me to eat one. Squirrels, however, are delicious ;)
Is it bad that I love your introductions as much as the foodie thoughts? We have a similar problem down here about eating possum - the thought of which makes my stomach flip - whereas the thought of squid for dinner is quite delicious. Ridiculous how blinkered we are. Analiese Gregory is tackling the problem of possum, but I'm yet to try it. Thanks for a fabulous morning read. x
I remember being in the Faroe Islands, which are surrounded by the kind of cold, clean Northern waters that make for excellent shellfish, and learning that, although the sea was full of what turned out to be the best langoustines I have ever eaten, few locals consumed them, finding them kind of gross (to say nothing of far more profitable when sold to Spain). Same went for an isolated peninsula in furthest Scotland--it took a literal famine before the crofters there would deign to eat their waters' abundant and fantastic prawns. So blinkered is right. That said, I'm from a part of the world that is also home to possums, and it's never occurred to me to eat one. Squirrels, however, are delicious ;)