{"id":135466,"date":"2017-11-30T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T00:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135466"},"modified":"2017-12-01T00:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:09:18","slug":"rise-fall-turtle-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/rise-fall-turtle-food.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of Turtle as Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting quick culinary history about how turtles went from expensive delicacy to standard to … completely off the menu. And the reasons for the latter aren’t just about endangered species.<\/p>\n

(I have no particular interest in eating turtle, but its still kind of curious how things changed over the course of a few centuries.)<\/p>\n


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\nWhy have Americans stopped eating turtle?<\/a><\/span>
\nAmerica has a food diversity problem. Chicken, pork, and beef account for many of the animal proteins found on our dinner table\u2014the product of decades of agricultural industrialization\u2014and this has left us with cheaper but more limited options at the butcher\u2019s counter. Once a year we all sit down to eat turkey, but when was the last time you had snipe, mutton, or rabbit?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Interesting quick culinary history about how turtles went from expensive delicacy to standard to … completely off the menu. And the reasons for the latter aren’t just about endangered species. (I have no particular interest in eating turtle, but its still kind of curious how things changed over the course of a few centuries.) 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