food snob
It’s all relative I suppose, what we will and won’t eat. Clearly through the years people ate what was in their environment, and came to like certain stuff. The northern European set too often look down their collective noses at what people from different parts of the world eat.
I don’t get eating whale, though. This story was in the Times. Of course it’s all alleged at this point, so who knows. But I have to say, nobody should eat whale, I don’t care how good it is, some stuff you just don’t do (unless you’re absolutely desperately starving and you happen across a beached whale). my two cents, no you can’t have your change back.
The Louis CK take on it…
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In many places whale is consumed by first peoples for whom it is a valid cultural touchpoint and a way of life. they often get licenses to harvest a small number (often single digits) of a certain species. SUch is the case with many native communities in Alaska. I am not defending, just explaining. Eating them for sport, harvesting endangered species of whale etc is wrong, plain and simple. I have eaten whale of some type in several countries 3 years ago and i can tell you there is much to recommend about it but i have not eaten it in years because i cant bring myself to do so anymore regradless of species. attitudes change and mine have about many foods. Where do Shefzilla readers fall when it comes to foie, wild salmon or tuna species, Vietnamese shrimp or other politically charged foods?
Great topic Shef…
I like my foie, wild tuna and salmon lightly seared
and hopefully on the house! G, i always had you pegged for an ortolan kind of guy…
It seems to me that the battle over foie is simply a proxy war for vegetarian activists. It’s production is no more or less cruel than other raising methods I heartily embrace. I would hazard to guess (and probably do not need to guess) that many factory-processed chickens suffer a much worse fate, but the foie gras process produces more sheer revulsion.
On fish, I do what I can, but I’m always skeptical of sustainability claims, which makes adherence to hard and fast rules seem arbitrary.