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Olivia Nordman

Professor Melissa Santos

6 April 2018

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            This week in class we watched another PBS episode. I find all of these episodes very interesting because each time I learn so much new information that I probably would not learn anywhere else. On this episode, it was centered around how people in other parts of the United States gather and hunt their food. It started off showing the gathering portion where mushrooms where the main priority. I never really thought about where these fruits and veggies came from or who gathered them. These men went deep into the woods and took knives and cut them from the ground. After this they took crates of them back into town and sold them. Where I’m from we have farmers markets and produce stands which in a way are very similar to this process.

            Besides the mushrooms, they also hunt for their meat. In the episode, they showed the annual “Roadkill competition”. When I first saw what that atmosphere was like and then heard they cooked squirrels and rabbits then ate them, my stomach turned a little. It was interesting though to see what people’s styles of preparing and eating food are in other parts of the country. I did not grow up around a lot of people who hunted their food much, but this is a regular thing for the people in this episode. The winner of the competition was the food that actually interested me the most. Their father was from the South and the mother was from China so they made “roadkill sushi” to incorporate both of their cultures into one. I don’t think I would ever try this because it was wrapped in squirrel, but I found the whole process very unique and interesting. These traditions and ways of living are something I’m not used to seeing so I found it very eye opening.