Old World Recipes to Help the Environment
Do you remember when everyone who was eating out was ordering Chilean Sea Bass and then it became almost endangered and they took it off the menu. I recently read some articles about invasive species should become the hot item and we can get rid of them by making the endangered and then gone.
Why am I writing about them in a blog about creating your memory cookbook? Since Asian Carp are part of the diets of people who live in Asia. If we go to those societies we can find some recipes to eat this fish. And, there is part of me that says maybe some cookbook author will take the lead and do the research and write a book that will be a hot seller to get rid of the things in our streams.
I grew on the Mason Dixon Line where back woods foods would occasionally be spoken of lovingly eaten at their grand parents—raccoons (coons) and squirrels were part of they diet. The only possums I ever saw were in the road lying flat but I do remember people talking about eating possums. On the Beverly Hill Billie’s television show they talked about eating possums. This idea is not that far fetched.
Attached are the links to the two articles and a brief few paragraphs to see what they are proposing.
My thoughts if we can’t get rid of them, lets eat them out of existence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02gorman.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=asian carp&st=cse By JAMES GORMAN
Published: December 31, 2010
There’s a new shift in the politics of food, not quite a movement yet, more of an eco-culinary frisson. But it may have staying power; the signs and portents are there. Vegans, freegans, locavores — meet the invasivores.
Reuters
Tasty Menace: The lionfish, a destructive and prolific native of the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific, invaded the Caribbean in the 1990s. Females can produce perhaps two million eggs a year.
Some divers in the Florida Keys recently held a lionfish derby, the idea being to kill and eat lionfish, an invasive species. Local chefs cooperated by promoting the lionfish as a tasty entree. The idea drew editorial support from Andrew Revkin in a post on The Times’s Dot Earth blog in which he also mentioned an attempt by some fisheries biologists to rename the invading Asian carp “Kentucky tuna” to make it more appealing to diners. And the Utne Reader recently ran an article about Chicago chefs turning their attention to the same invasive fish.
And this week….
http://www.startribune.com/local/114321859.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU By BILL McAULIFFE, Star Tribune
Last update: January 20, 2011
Carp: It's what's for dinner, under a broad strategy aimed at preventing a newly invasive species from colonizing the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.
John Goss, the recently appointed Asian carp director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in Minneapolis on Thursday that marketing the carp to parts of China where they're a delicacy, as well as encouraging Americans to sample some, could help stop the advance of a fish many believe is on the verge of disrupting the ecology and recreational value of many of the mid-continent's waterways.
Asian carp, one variety of which is known to leap from the water when agitated and knock over boaters and waterskiers, have been migrating north since escaping from an Arkansas fish farm about 15 years ago. The jumping silver carp have been expanding their range in tandem with bighead carp, which can grow to 100 pounds and 4 feet in length and eat 40 percent of their body weight daily. Goss described Asian carp as a threat "we have not seen ... in modern times."
Why am I writing about them in a blog about creating your memory cookbook? Since Asian Carp are part of the diets of people who live in Asia. If we go to those societies we can find some recipes to eat this fish. And, there is part of me that says maybe some cookbook author will take the lead and do the research and write a book that will be a hot seller to get rid of the things in our streams.
I grew on the Mason Dixon Line where back woods foods would occasionally be spoken of lovingly eaten at their grand parents—raccoons (coons) and squirrels were part of they diet. The only possums I ever saw were in the road lying flat but I do remember people talking about eating possums. On the Beverly Hill Billie’s television show they talked about eating possums. This idea is not that far fetched.
Attached are the links to the two articles and a brief few paragraphs to see what they are proposing.
My thoughts if we can’t get rid of them, lets eat them out of existence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02gorman.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=asian carp&st=cse By JAMES GORMAN
Published: December 31, 2010
There’s a new shift in the politics of food, not quite a movement yet, more of an eco-culinary frisson. But it may have staying power; the signs and portents are there. Vegans, freegans, locavores — meet the invasivores.
Reuters
Tasty Menace: The lionfish, a destructive and prolific native of the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific, invaded the Caribbean in the 1990s. Females can produce perhaps two million eggs a year.
Some divers in the Florida Keys recently held a lionfish derby, the idea being to kill and eat lionfish, an invasive species. Local chefs cooperated by promoting the lionfish as a tasty entree. The idea drew editorial support from Andrew Revkin in a post on The Times’s Dot Earth blog in which he also mentioned an attempt by some fisheries biologists to rename the invading Asian carp “Kentucky tuna” to make it more appealing to diners. And the Utne Reader recently ran an article about Chicago chefs turning their attention to the same invasive fish.
And this week….
http://www.startribune.com/local/114321859.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU By BILL McAULIFFE, Star Tribune
Last update: January 20, 2011
Carp: It's what's for dinner, under a broad strategy aimed at preventing a newly invasive species from colonizing the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.
John Goss, the recently appointed Asian carp director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in Minneapolis on Thursday that marketing the carp to parts of China where they're a delicacy, as well as encouraging Americans to sample some, could help stop the advance of a fish many believe is on the verge of disrupting the ecology and recreational value of many of the mid-continent's waterways.
Asian carp, one variety of which is known to leap from the water when agitated and knock over boaters and waterskiers, have been migrating north since escaping from an Arkansas fish farm about 15 years ago. The jumping silver carp have been expanding their range in tandem with bighead carp, which can grow to 100 pounds and 4 feet in length and eat 40 percent of their body weight daily. Goss described Asian carp as a threat "we have not seen ... in modern times."
Posted by Hella at 1/22/2011 11:37 AM 
Categories: family recipes, Healthy Eating, organic foods, eco-friendly
Tags: invasive species Asian Carp eating locally endangered species unusal diets
Categories: family recipes, Healthy Eating, organic foods, eco-friendly
Tags: invasive species Asian Carp eating locally endangered species unusal diets
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