How many different types of animals have you eaten?

Gus, I did a quick search on Thoreau and below was the first paragraph about him, the funny part is I live in Haverhill, Ma.

"I can open Thoreau anywhere and read over and over a single sentence, about the road between Haverhill and Penacook, or how oak seedlings are best found in a pine wood, and in that sentence is the fragrance of a life lived." - Mike Price

paulaj my great grandmother is buried somewhere in Haverhill.....

meanwhile, back on topic....I have eaten cow, lamb, snake, squirrel, frog, chicken....and of course I recommend that everyone on these threads eat bear at least once.

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat."

Vegetables are what food eats.

bear have you ate crow?

I love a woman who is Thoreau, whether they can read or not. I suppose the most Zen animals I ever ate were dust mites, as I didn't even have to think about it. It all seemed like dining in an incredible dream.

My signature says today Pumas 3, América 0.
This means that an Americanista paid my dinner last Wednesday.
I had to go for the best of the best in food and drink,
Among other delicacies, I ordered escamoles, ant's eggs. Expensive, too:

Ooh, I've heard of escamoles...tell us more...

Do women count?

Escamoles are "harvested" by hand in the black ant hole. After colecting the escamoles, they have to be cleaned, so no live ant is among them.

Butter Escamoles
1 Portion
• 2 spoons butter
• 2 leaves of epazote
• 60 grams escamoles
• 2 thin slices of onion
• salt
You heat the butter on a pan. Add the escamoles until they pop, add the chopped onion, salt and epazote.
The plate is served with a portion of guacamole, and tortilla chips.

Of course, we could change the subject, and go into grasshoppers dipped in bitter chocolate sauce... yummy (though I personally prefer my grasshoppers with salt and chile).

I can imagine that insects in general aren't really much different than fried smelts. Just crispy protein goodness. Sadly, epazote is not that readily availible here fresh. Well, neither are escamoles, at all.

Of course, I still couldn't resist a joke. One never wants live ants infesting their black hole.

Feel free to talk grashoppers.

Grasshoppers as a spicy snack:

First you must wash them throughly, put them in water with lime for 8 hours. You rinse them again, and fry them in a little oil for 10 minutes. Add salt, lemon and blended chile.



Grasshoppers as a dessert:

Wash the grasshoppers as on the other recipe. Take away the legs. Grill them. for 10 minutes.
On an aside, stir bitter chocolate in "baño maría" (a small saucepan inside a bigger saucepan with boiling water).
Cover each grasshopper with a spoon of chocolate.
Put on the fridge.

fbaezer, maybe you and I could start a business with grasshoppers. I have plenty of grasshoppers around the swamp and you seem to have the culinary knowledge.

Hey! How about grasshopper cereal?

I can see it now. A portly woman walks down the aisles of the grocery store. Suddenly she spots what she's been looking for...

Fbaezer and Ratzenhofer Grasshopper Crunch

I see potential here.

Grasshoppers have a lot more protein per gram than meat.

The F-R Grasshopper Crunch would help a lot of body builders.

Since you have the swamp, we'd have no trouble with trade protectionists, but I'm afraid but we'd have the FDA against us, Gustav.

The estimated number of insects on earth is 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000), and although insects are the dominant life form on our planet, there's no denying the fact that we're at the top of the food chain.
Imagine a soylent green tablet of compressed insect protein. On a percentage basis, dried insects have triple the protein content of mammals and birds, and a much higher vitamin and mineral content. It takes 10 times as much food to raise a pound of cattle as it does a pound of caterpillars (and a lot more time and space); you could literally raise most of your nutritional needs in an area the size of a kitchen cupboard.

And where could one buy a pound of grasshoppers?

I've been to Asia and I'm sure I've eaten plenty of
stuff that wasn't kosher, but as long as I don't know
what it is and it tastes good, why not. You always
can wash it down with a Tequila.

How about a moth cereal? I can certainly produce that! Do you think that would fly off the shelves?

I think that's an ingredient already present in most
cereals dagmaraka.

Watch it, mate!

Interestingly enough, according to the Talmud, grasshoppers and locusts are indeed kosher.

I knew that would flush you out, msolga