Squirrel stew as austerity dish?
The BBC explores whether squirrel should resume its traditional place in the American stew pot.
I particularly liked this quote from William Hovey Smith, who lives on his family’s old plantation in the great state of Georgia:
“I do not cook the squirrel heads, although my mother dearly loved them – squirrel brains,” he recalls. “They have a nutty taste.”
If squirrels become the in-food, there’s plenty of good eating right around my house!
I made the following tweet last Saturday:
The grey squirrel on the porch railing just now was huge. I’m glad those things aren’t predators. T-dot would be a v diff city if they were.
Which makes me this of this: