Venison - was Re: SC - Boar Recipe
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Sat Sep 18 11:18:01 PDT 1999
LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Deer populations of the East coast were, SFAIK, considerably less (up
to 10
> times less) when the colonists arrived than they are now. The increase is due
> to agriculture which provides a larger base for food scavenging. Think acres
> and acres of corn. :-) Other populations of wild game were significantly
> larger such as bear, pigeons and most subspecies of Dinosauria, such as Ave
> (birds).
>
> There would have been a rare deer now and again buts lots of geese, pigeons,
> small birds, turkey, etc., as well as bear. Also fresh and salt water fish
> was abundant.
Yes, thank you. That may well be.
Compared to the populations in Britain at the time (sorely depleted --
think of those faux venison pasty recipes), it was probably still fairly
impressive.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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