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By: Connie Ngo,
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Sometimes what is considered edible is subject to a given culture or region of the world; what someone from Nicaragua would consider “local grub” could be entirely different than what someone in Paris would eat. How many different types of meat have you experienced? Are there some types of meat you would never eat? Below are nine different types of meat, listed in The Oxford Companion to Food, that you may not have considered trying:
Camel: Still eaten in some regions, a camel’s hump is generally considered the best part of the body to eat. Its milk, a staple for desert nomads, contains more fat and slightly more protein than cow’s milk.
Beaver: A beaver’s tail and liver are considered delicacies in some countries. The tail is fatty tissue and was greatly relished by early trappers and explorers. Its liver is large and almost as tender and sweet as a chicken’s or a goose’s.
Agouti: Also spelled aguti; a rodent species that may have been described by Charles Darwin as “the very best meat I ever tasted” (though he may have been actually describing a guinea pig since he believed agouti and cavy were interchangeable names).
Armadillo: Its flesh is rich and porky, and tastes more like possum than any other game. A common method of cooking is to bake the armadillo in its own shell after removing its glands.
Capybara: The capybara was an approved food by the Pope for traditional “meatless” days, probably since it was considered semiaquatic. Its flesh, unless prepared carefully to trim off fat, tastes fishy.
Hedgehog: A traditional gypsy cooking method is to encase the hedgehog in clay and roast it, after which breaking off the baked clay would take the spines with it.
Alligator: Its meat is white and flaky, likened to chicken or, sometimes, flounder. Alligators were feared to become extinct from consumption, until they started becoming farmed.
Iguana: Iguanas were an important food to the Maya people when the Spaniards took over Central America. Its eggs were also favored, being the size of a table tennis ball, and consisted entirely of yolk.
Puma: Charles Darwin believed he was eating some kind of veal when presented with puma meat. He described it as, “very white, and remarkably like veal in taste”. One puma can provide a lot of meat, since each can weigh up to 100 kg (225 lb).
Has this list changed the way you view these animals? Would you try alligator meat but turn your nose up if presented with a hedgehog platter?
Headline Image: Street Food at Wangfujing Street. Photo by Jirka Matousek. CC BY 2.0 via Flickr
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Hi, friends!
Man oh man, how I've neglected this blog!
Somehow it is already MAY.
MAY 2014.
How did that happen?
Seriously, the year is flying.
FLYING!
A super quick update:
Since my last post in January I have . . .
-Moved out of Brooklyn, New York, and down to charming Baltimore, Maryland. A BIG change, but a very good one.
-Started and (almost) finished the art for a picture book titled YARD SALE, written by Eve Bunting (!Pinch me!), that will come out in spring 2015.
-Purchased a new sketchbook where a tiny hedgehog showed up one happy day in February. Now, two and a half months later, it is hard to draw anything BUT Hedgehog. I'm obsessed.
-Finally jumped in to the wonderful world of Twitter, where I have had the opportunity to meet and chat with so many lovely and awesome new people. Hooray for social media (mostly:)!
-Received actual bound copies of my new book as author/illustrator,
THE TROUBLEMAKER. I am so pleased with how it's turned out. A million thanks to my editor, art director and all of Clarion/HMH for encouraging and supporting me and this book. I'll be doing my first read aloud to a group of 60(!) Pre-K kiddos next week. Please, keep your fingers crossed for me! :)
THE TROUBLEMAKER's book birthday is one month from today. June 3rd, 2014. I cannot wait! You can read more about the book
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I'll leave you with my first ever attempt at animation, below.
Happy weekend, all! Hope it's a fantastic one.
xo~Lauren
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Happiest of Holiday to y’all!
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Illustrazione che ho fatto per il concorso "Cavoli a Merenda"promosso dall'associazione Malagutti OnlusAnche se non ho vinto io il concorso è stato l'occasione per creare questa bella cascata di sognispero vi piaccia
SOGNI D'ORO A TUTTI!!!
Illustration for a contestI didn't win the contest, but it was a great occasion to create this waterfall of dreams. Hope you like it :)
SWEET DREAMS TO ALL OF YOU!!!
Vincitore (The winner of the contest you can see here): http://www.dirittiacolori.it/it/concorso_illustratori_iv_vincitore
Questa è Bijou :) dopo una faticosa giornata di lavoro.A lei piace stare sui libri, mentre studi o leggi. E le piace stare proprio sulla pagina che stai leggendo... che gusto ci sarebbe a stare sulla pagina di destra mentre leggi la sinistra, o no?Ma, soprattutto, Bijou adora stare sui miei disegni mentre dipingo... nel senso che ogni tanto cerca di zampettarci sopra, e allora è bene avere dei buoni riflessi, prima che ci metta la sua firma ;PQuando Bijou decide di sdraiarsi sul punto in cui ho il foglio, resta ben poco da fare, posso anche provare a spostarla un po', ma lei torna irremovibile sul luogo scelto e non è assolutamente possibile farle cambiare idea. E' inutile anche tentare di spostarsi, se lo faccio, dopo alcuni secondi si sposta anche lei, seguendo la sua opera (il suo letto) :) e allora c'è una sola cosa da fare:cedere e conciliarle il sonno con una bella dose di carezzine :)
This is Bijou, after an hard day's work.She likes to stay on the books, while you study or read. And she likes to stay right on the page you are reading ...
what fun she would have to stay on the right page as you read the left, or not?
But, above all, Bijou likes to stay on the paper while I paint my drawings ... in the sense that sometimes
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While getting ready for my surgery, I started accumulating books over the past few months, some from used book stores and some from Borders. (Alas, I won't be doing the latter anymore.) Some were adult books, and some were children's books. I started on the adult stack first, and was I ever surprised: Apparently my week in Paris a couple of summers ago burned its imprint into my unconscious; five of the books take place either partially or entirely in Paris. They are too many to review, so consider this post a thumbnail sharing of each.
I'll start with my least favorite first,
Gourmet Rhapsody, by Muriel Barbery. I'm sorry to put it that way, too, because my purchase was motivated by how charmed I had been by Barbery's first book,
The Elegance of the Hedgehog. In
Hedgehog, a young girl has given herself a date on which she'll commit suicide unless she can find enough reasons not to. I know that sounds like a morbid story, but the book captures small, luminous moments of beauty that make life truly worth living. So I was expecting to be deeply moved again in
Gourmet. Nope: A food critic lies on his deathbed, hoping to capture a favorite flavor that he can't quite identify in memory. Acquaintances and family each have a turn at sharing what they recall about this thoroughly unlikeable man. That's it, folks. some exquisite writing, because this author cannot turn out a bad line, but for me, the plot was . . . missing in action (pun intended).
But, next I read Cara Black's
Murder in the Bastille. Black is one of my favorite mystery writers. Her series stars Aimée Leduc, a private eye for white collar techie matters who keeps getting dragged into murder cases instead. To read any one in the series is to get a free trip to Paris. Black knows that city inside and out and places each new mystery in a different neighborhood. Because Aimée grew up in Paris, naturally she has little snippets of memory about buildings she passes or bridges or streets she traverses, and so in a completely non-intrusive way, the reader picks up scraps of French history and art history while Aimée chases or runs from the bad guys. Black's website is equally interesting: Press
here and go take a peek.
Then I read
The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks. This is a carefully sculpted story of a young girl cast adrift following World War I. It takes place in a small village outside of Paris where Anne has taken employment as a waitress in the Hotel Lion D'Or of the title. Her story unfolds by degrees: Her father was falsely accused of cowardice at Verdun and shot. Because of accusations, Anne and her mother were hounded out of their village and went to Paris. With no one to turn to after her mother dies, Anne hopes to find a new life at the Lion D'Or. Sh
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I’ve recently been going through the UK’s daily papers and finding one or two weird news items and giving you links to them but I’m now finding myself in a position where I can’t keep up with the weird and wonderful so I’m trying a change of tack and just give you a brief rundown of what I found intriguing or amusing!
Here’s my top four for today.
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I was checking out the Daily Telegraph and came across something particularly odd. It seems that, in order to try and keep swine ‘flu at bay in H M Prison The Verne in Dorset, the governor sanctioned the purchase of a goodly supply of anti-bacterial hand gel. As soon as it was distributed amongst the prisoners apparently one of the inmates decided it’d be a good idea to drink it rather than shove it on his hands. I’m not sure how much the prisoner actually drank but he became a tad tiddly and started a fight. Before anyone knew it, there was a full blown behind bars brawl. Oddly enough, the staff at the prison took away what remained of the hand gel, presumably considering it would be easier to deal with a swine ‘flu epidemic than an alcohol poison one!
It just begs the question, who was the prisoner who actually tried the hand gel in the first place? I’m just wondering what I’ve got under the kitchen sink that I could try? How about a Mr Muscle Margarita for starters?
The second news item that interested me was again from the Daily Telegraph. It gave details of some of the strangest items that had been taken from hotel rooms. Amongst those that caught my eye were a marble fireplace; a whole room – the contents were completely stripped; a mounted boar’s head; a hotel owner’s dog; a grand piano and a selection of sex toys.
Once again, my brain went into overdrive, particularly when it came to the sex toys. I can’t imagine even using sex toys provided by a hotel let alone stealing them – you don’t know where they’ve been!!
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My next story which was reported in several papers, relates to a tortoise that was found walking along the M25 motorway (freeway). Thankfully, for once, most of the drivers were obviously keeping their eyes on the road and the tortoise was rescued by a tortoise loving driver who, having taken a little detour to the supermarket to pick up some lettuce and tomatoes for the traumatised turtle and then took him for a check up at the local vet where it was discovered that he was chipped so hopefully owners and family pet will soon be reunited.
Quite what the tortoise was doing on the M25 I have no idea. Maybe, like many travellers before him, he couldn’t find the right junction off the circular motorway to reach home or another alternative could be that he’d been visiting The Verne Prison and had a drop too much of anti-bacterial hand gel!!!
And finally, what would you expect a badger to eat? I’d always considered they spent their evenings rummaging around the woodlands looking out grubs, insects, worms and the odd mouse or two but it seems it’s now been discovered that the latest badger delicacy is hedgehog. How can a badger who normally eats small and relatively ’smooth’ food cope with the prickles? What motivates a badger to even consider tackling a hedgehog. Maybe their lives are so mundane that they decided they wanted more of a challenge. It’s a mystery to me but I’m sure that some night wildlife watcher will come up with a bit of video footage to enlighten me!
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I’ve recently been going through the UK’s daily papers and finding one or two weird news items and giving you links to them but I’m now finding myself in a position where I can’t keep up with the weird and wonderful so I’m trying a change of tack and just give you a brief rundown of what I found intriguing or amusing!
Here’s my top four for today.
Image by Jim Linwood via Flickr
I was checking out the Daily Telegraph and came across something particularly odd. It seems that, in order to try and keep swine ‘flu at bay in H M Prison The Verne in Dorset, the governor sanctioned the purchase of a goodly supply of anti-bacterial hand gel. As soon as it was distributed amongst the prisoners apparently one of the inmates decided it’d be a good idea to drink it rather than shove it on his hands. I’m not sure how much the prisoner actually drank but he became a tad tiddly and started a fight. Before anyone knew it, there was a full blown behind bars brawl. Oddly enough, the staff at the prison took away what remained of the hand gel, presumably considering it would be easier to deal with a swine ‘flu epidemic than an alcohol poison one!
It just begs the question, who was the prisoner who actually tried the hand gel in the first place? I’m just wondering what I’ve got under the kitchen sink that I could try? How about a Mr Muscle Margarita for starters?
The second news item that interested me was again from the Daily Telegraph. It gave details of some of the strangest items that had been taken from hotel rooms. Amongst those that caught my eye were a marble fireplace; a whole room – the contents were completely stripped; a mounted boar’s head; a hotel owner’s dog; a grand piano and a selection of sex toys.
Once again, my brain went into overdrive, particularly when it came to the sex toys. I can’t imagine even using sex toys provided by a hotel let alone stealing them – you don’t know where they’ve been!!
Image via Wikipedia
My next story which was reported in several papers, relates to a tortoise that was found walking along the M25 motorway (freeway). Thankfully, for once, most of the drivers were obviously keeping their eyes on the road and the tortoise was rescued by a tortoise loving driver who, having taken a little detour to the supermarket to pick up some lettuce and tomatoes for the traumatised turtle and then took him for a check up at the local vet where it was discovered that he was chipped so hopefully owners and family pet will soon be reunited.
Quite what the tortoise was doing on the M25 I have no idea. Maybe, like many travellers before him, he couldn’t find the right junction off the circular motorway to reach home or another alternative could be that he’d been visiting The Verne Prison and had a drop too much of anti-bacterial hand gel!!!
And finally, what would you expect a badger to eat? I’d always considered they spent their evenings rummaging around the woodlands looking out grubs, insects, worms and the odd mouse or two but it seems it’s now been discovered that the latest badger delicacy is hedgehog. How can a badger who normally eats small and relatively ’smooth’ food cope with the prickles? What motivates a badger to even consider tackling a hedgehog. Maybe their lives are so mundane that they decided they wanted more of a challenge. It’s a mystery to me but I’m sure that some night wildlife watcher will come up with a bit of video footage to enlighten me!
Did you know you can have a hedgehog as a pet? Want to learn more about these funny prickly animals? Click here. Print and color in this coloring page and send it to me at [email protected] as a jpeg or pdf and I'll post it on my blog! Happy Coloring!! For more Coloring pages click here.
Have a merry Xmas too ! Lots of fun, love & joy !
I love your bouncing hedgehogs!
Too cute for words.