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Hallo Ruby, how are you? Thanks for that website. We had a flurry of correspondence on the subject of 'To eat or not to eat Nucella' on Zooarch a couple of years ago. At that time the consensus seemed to be that Nucella are inedible. However recent enquiries of mine have yielded the following information. Thais haemostoma (closely related to Nucella lapillus), known locally as Buzios are eaten in the Azores. They are removed from their shells like winkles, the shells are not broken! I had this from the marine biologist who told me about Patella ulyssiponensis being tastier than P. vulgata. He has eaten them in the Azores, limpets that is. Also I have learnt that Nucella are eaten today in the Pays de Loire area of France. They are said to taste 'so-so' which suggests they are an 'acquired taste'! However in Brittany the French regard Nucella as distasteful and do not eat them apparently. Like limpets I feel in the end I will just have to try them for myself! Best wishes Jan >Dear Ruth & all other archaeo-malacologists! here is a great site where you may >find about edible and non-edible molluscs around the world! > >'Man and Mollusc's Data Base' > >http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_mp.html#index > >Jackie: in coastal South America there are several species of molluscs that are >eaten, usually by boiling as in the case of snails and other species that >have 'hard' meat like those of the limpet. You take them out of the shell and >look for 'organs' which are usually washed away and only the 'obvious' meat is >eaten, these like your limpets have a rubbery texture. Different molluscs >require different time of cooking so that they don't become too rubbery so, may >be you should experiment also with different time of boiling limpets and taste >their texture. There are many ways that people have traditionally eaten marine >molluscs in atin America, including raw (e.g mussels, oysters, sea urchins). > >I also have another question! Can anyone tell me if you have seen modern >examples of Nucella lapillus being eaten? > >Many thanks & best wishes >Ruby > >Quoting "Young, R.L." <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Dear zooarch list >> >> I'm working on material from a Sri Lankan site which has freshwater >> corrugated clams (Parreysia corrugata) occurring in some numbers from >> around 900 BC through to 200 AD. >> I wondered if anyone had come across this as a food source, and under >> what circumstances? It is being consumed alongside healthy quantities >> of cattle, pig and deer, and certainly does not seem to be reserve, or >> famine food. The conditions aruond the site are perfect for its >> propagation. >> >> cheers >> Ruth >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> Dr Ruth Young >> School of Archaeology & Ancient History >> University of Leicester >> LE1 7RH >> >> >> >> > > > >Dr Ruby Ceron-Carrasco >Archaeology >School of Arts, Culture & the Environment. >The University of Edinburgh >Old High School >Edinburgh EH1 1LT >Scotland Jan Light Janthina Consultants 88 Peperharow Road Godalming, Surrey GU7 2PN, UK email: [log in to unmask] Tel: ++44 (0)1483 417782 Mob: ++44 (0)7973 322681