[Sca-cooks] Seal meat

[Donna Green]

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> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:13:15 -0400
> From: Kathleen Gormanshaw <kgormanshaw at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Seal meat
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> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Stefan li Rous
> <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
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> > So what DOES seal meat taste like? How was it cooked?
> 
> I don't have a period answer

Some of the sailors tales and chronicles from the Age of Exploration include citations of period Europeans eating seal (and various other critters). My notes on this are at home, but I can dig them up if anyone is interested.

Juana Isabella
West