> I have been asked about whether humans eat carnivores.
Dear Dale,
as Barbara Wilkens said the "Felino salami" is a pig's salame !!!
Nevertheless in Italy is well know an old rumour that call the inhabitants
of the Vicenza town "magnagati" (cats eaters).
For the consumption of carnivores salami I found this:
.... ". The use of the otter as food by the Carthusian Fathers is
confirmed
in a writing by Trino Bottani, in his "Essay on the history of Caorle ":
«... Lodre (16): animale anfibio: se ne pigliano molte nelle nostre lacune
coll'arcobugio, e con i ferri detti da lodre. Se ne prendono anche di
quelle, che hanno il peso di lib. 12. in 14., la carne è saporitissima, e
si
usava molto da' Padri Certosini: formava essa l'essenziale delle loro
vivande, e si preparavano con essa le Salsiccie, o così detti Salami, che
decantano saporitissimi...» (.OTTER (16): Amphibious animal: many can be
caught in our lagoons with our harquebus, or with special traps. Also
those weighting 12 or 14 pounds can be found. Their meat is very tasty,
and
was used quite much by the Carthusian Fathers. Actually it was their main
dish, and they used it to make sausages or salami, that the people judge to
be excellent).
The fact that otter meat had a peculiar taste, quite agreeable to the
palate, is confirmed by the Nuova Enciclopedia Popolare Italiana of 1865,
where we read: «Come cibo, la carne di lontra è assai gustosa, purchè le si
tolga l'odor di pesce per mezzo di droghe e di aromi, e la Chiesa permette
che si mangi ai giorni di magro» (As food, otter meat is quite tasty,
provided its fish taste is taken away using spices or other aromas. The
Church allows this meat to be eaten on the days when meat is forbidden)....
All the best
Jacopo
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Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma
Laboratorio di Archeozoologia
via Sant'Apollinare, 8 - 00186 Roma
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale Serjeantson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:27 PM
> Subject: FW: cat meat?
>
>
> > Hello all,
> > I have been asked about whether humans eat carnivores. The
> > query arose when someone saw a sign on a shop in Milan
> > "Salami Felino".
> >
> > I could not immediately think of a community which does eat
> > carnivores routinely, though there are some which eat those
> > carnivores which act as omnivores like dogs and bears.
> >
> > I have also heard of isolated exceptions, like Frank
> > Buckland serving up a dead tiger from London Zoo.
> >
> > Any further ideas?
> > Dale
> > The Dr Doolittle books featured a catsmeat man, but I have
> > always assumed that he sold horse meat which people fed to
> > their cats.
> >
> > ----------------------
> > Dale Serjeantson
> > Visiting Research Fellow
> > Department of Archaeology
> > University of Southampton
> > Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
> > Tel: (44) (0)23 8059 3210
> >
>
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