21st century hunt
January 18, 2004 7:39 PM Subscribe
Hunting and gathering in your own backyard: "Alistair Bland was a student at the University of California at Santa Barbara last year when he decided to spend 10 weeks as an urban hunter-gatherer. He foraged for food in that city and survived on what he could kill or find growing outside . . ." (Real Audio required). Bland reported on the project in more detail in the Daily Gullet.
Damn it! I'll never trust that thing that checks the URL when you post again ;)
posted by ryanshepard at 8:38 PM on January 18, 2004
posted by ryanshepard at 8:38 PM on January 18, 2004
no worries. Google is usually a better bet for checking if a topic has been previously discussed. I actually googledtm for "metafilter fig" to find the september thread. Odd that NPR is just now getting around to discussing the story.
posted by shoepal at 8:47 PM on January 18, 2004
posted by shoepal at 8:47 PM on January 18, 2004
I think often of eating my dog. Am I a hunter-gatherer?
posted by troutfishing at 9:20 PM on January 18, 2004
posted by troutfishing at 9:20 PM on January 18, 2004
Anybody interested in a diet of snow and ice is welcome to anything they can find in my back yard at the moment. (Actually, once in a while a white-tailed deer wanders through, but I haven't figured out how to fit him/her in the toaster oven.)
posted by LeLiLo at 2:17 AM on January 19, 2004
posted by LeLiLo at 2:17 AM on January 19, 2004
lelilo - in small pieces, I'd say. Use the broiler pan too, or the deer chunk will tend to catch on fire from the fat-drippings.
There's a good sized herd of wild turkeys which shows up in my backyard about once a week or so. About two dozen turkeys. The really do make those gobbling noises, and some of them are quite big - 40 or 50 pounds, even. I've seen neighborhood cats trying to stalk this birdherd, but the turkeys just ignore house cats. They'd turn they tables on an attacking cat, I've no doubt.
posted by troutfishing at 6:44 AM on January 19, 2004
There's a good sized herd of wild turkeys which shows up in my backyard about once a week or so. About two dozen turkeys. The really do make those gobbling noises, and some of them are quite big - 40 or 50 pounds, even. I've seen neighborhood cats trying to stalk this birdherd, but the turkeys just ignore house cats. They'd turn they tables on an attacking cat, I've no doubt.
posted by troutfishing at 6:44 AM on January 19, 2004
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