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#1 melamed

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Posted 21 October 2009 - 03:03 PM

This summer I spent time in Alaska which looked to me, in that short time frame like the garden of Eden with all the wild
food growing and roaming in the great outdoors. I spoke to people who made their own bear salami.
venisin is common throughout the state, especially reindeer. It seems like all Alaskans go fishing and stock their refrigerators
to last all winter. In an Alaskan cookbook I bought bear, moose, reindeer, walrus and all types of fish were used in the recipes.
Every Alaskan we met were either hunters/fishermen or both. It seems to me the Alaskans eat more wild food than any other American and have even written conservation laws within their constitution to protect their resources.