Unmentionable Cuisine
- ISBN-10
- 0813911621
- ISBN-13
- 9780813911625
- Category
- Animals
- Pages
- 476
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Author
- Calvin W. Schwabe
Description
Includes recipes for cooking horse meat, goats, dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, hares, squirrels, turtles, snakes, eels, sharks, frogs, and insects, among other unusual food sources.
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