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Posted by: Alexia 4 months ago

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Some people would just as soon ignore the culinary potential of the Carolina flying squirrel or the Waldoboro green neck rutabaga. To them, the creamy Hutterite soup bean is too obscure and the Tennessee fainting goat, which keels over when startled, sounds more like a sideshow act than the centerpiece of a barbecue.

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ETproductions4 months ago

Great White Sharks have been recently returning the favor. When will they think of farm-raised humans?
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Beau78904 months ago

Here's a kind of fun interactive map where you can roll over different areas of the country to see which foods are disappearing in the New York Times, which ran this same artcle.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/29/d...
Here in Wild Rice Nation," I'm looking forward to having some of those American eels of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, or driving just a half-hour south to "Corn Bread Nation" and getting some of that mulefoot hog or Tennessee fainting goat with with Chickasaw plums and Honey Drip cane sorghum. Mmmmmm.
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marshx4 months ago

haven't we eaten a species to extinction before?
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