My friend Kristen over at My Kids Eat Squid, is hosting a giveaway (for bison!) and in her post she asks readers to share one of the most unusual things they’ve eaten. I didn’t have to think back too far for my answer. On a recent youth group camping trip along the Kohala Coast of the Big Island, Hawaii’s rocky shoreline offered up a chance to try something new and unexpected. “You want to try?” Lanakila asked, holding his knife out to me. On it was a bit of yellow…something. Looking past his knife to where he’d been working I could see the cracked remains of a haukiuki, a type of sea urchin. Several kids stood around the campsite, lightly dusted with drying sea salt, hair still wet from swimming in the ocean. They clearly expected me to give this one a pass, none more so than my own 17 year old. I reached out and took the bit of yellow from his knife and put it in my mouth. Salty. Mushy. Meh. I wouldn’t go clambering over rocks to find more for dinner, but if there was no dinner? Good to know this creature’s innards are palatable. Auntie Maile, [...]
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By: Kris Bordessa,
on 7/29/2010
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Sea urchin–I didn’t even know that they were edible. What a cool experience. We went to a large indoor/outdoor food market today and while there was nothing as exotic as sea urchin, my kids dined on spicy beef jerky, sun-dried tomato gnocchi, and cannolis. It was so much fun.
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Sea urchin is one of my least favorite things, and I’ll eat most things (short of insects). We tried it at sushi and I’m not doing that again.
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