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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Culinary DeLites

Serve yourself at the dinner table, not the counter, and you may eat much more.  
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Start your day with a big breakfast, including eggs and even a piece of bacon. 
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A leading environmental group tests 173 products, but just three get the highest marks.  
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New Food Movement: People Who Hunt and Eat Invasive Species
You may have heard of locavores — people who prefer to eat food grown or raised locally — or freegans — people who dine on wasted food. Now there’s a new food movement that advocates curbing the growth of invasive species by eating them. Invasivors prey upon species that are taking over the established habitats of other animals. Jackson Landers is an adherent of this movement:
As the Locavore Hunter, based in Virginia, he teaches urbanites how to hunt and butcher deer. He has branched out from the locavore life to invasives, and lionfish are one target. But as he has pushed the envelope of the invasivore approach, he has hunted and eaten feral pigs, two species of iguana, armadillos, starlings, pigeons and resident Canada geese. He says that all of these activities will be chronicled in a book, “Eating Aliens,” and perhaps a television show as well.
Mr. Landers, who grew up in a vegetarian household, taught himself to hunt. He believes that eating invasives can have a real effect. “When human beings decide that something tastes good, we can take them down pretty quickly,” he said. Our taste for passenger pigeon wiped that species out, he said. What if we developed a similar taste for starlings?
The "supergrain" has become a staple among foodies, and a boon for primary producer Bolivia.  
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