[Sca-cooks] Wild West Delicacy

Elaine Koogler kiridono at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 06:28:54 PDT 2009


Actually I'm not so sure that it's entirely a Western thing.  I remember my
uncles and father talking about "mountain oysters" when I was growing up.
It took me a number of years to realize that they hadn't found a place in
the Shenandoah Valley where oysters grew!

Kiri


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> I am sure that Ras would have appreciated this:
> Virginia City Journal Delicacy of the Wild West Lives on for Those So Bold
> ..."the 18th annual International Comstock Mountain Oyster Fry. Classically
> dipped in cornmeal and then fried, or artfully concealed in scrambled eggs,
> bordelaise sauce or sushi, these oysters were not of the Chesapeake or
> bluepoint variety but, rather, a cornerstone of Western ranching culture
> involving testicles from gelded lambs and calves."
>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18oyster.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=testicles&st=cse
>
> Johnnae
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