On 1 Aug 2016, at 13:46, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Does that mean that Thoreau was accustomed to eating salted brown paper?  Perhaps brown paper in his day was tastier or more nutricious.

Carl Berkowitz

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From: Tonya Largy <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] mussels

I worked on a Native American freshwater shell midden (Elliptio) site in Massachusetts, which dated to 4000+ BP.  Henry David Thoreau is quoted as saying the mussels taste "like brown paper salted".   I will send the paper to you off-list.

Tonya Largy

Salima Ikram wrote:

Thanks. I know of cultures that are supposed to have eaten them—has anyone on list? I have only heard they are rubbery, from a few sources I found online, with only one person half-heartedly saying they were quite edible

Salima Ikram

Distinguished University Professor 

Egyptology Unit Head

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology
American University in Cairo
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On 1 Aug 2016, at 00:02, Matthew Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Salima

I haven’t eaten them and I’m told they are rubbery and tasteless but freshwater mussels were commonly eaten by Maori in New Zealand, I can send you a reference off list

Mat

 

From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Salima Ikram
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 7:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [ZOOARCH] mussels

 

Dear All

 

Any thoughts on freshwater bivalve consumption? Are they nice? Are they properly edible? Mutela sp, Aspatheria, chambardia rubens, Coelatura aegyptiaca

 

 

Salima Ikram

Distinguished University Professor 

Egyptology Unit Head

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology
American University in Cairo
AUC Avenue, PO Box 74
New Cairo 11835
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tel: 20-2-2615-1840; fax: 20-2-2797-4903

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