One thing I have noticed with being at Concordia where there are students from everywhere is that not many people have heard of venison. I love venison, living in Wisconsin everyone has at least heard of it and if you happen to be a vegetarian, you will be made fun of. Hunting is huge in the Midwest and it's interesting to see students not from the Midwest who have never tried or heard of venison. The map that you used in class involving where all the Whitetail trophies are from sparked my interest about who has even tried venison. I have never really thought of this before because my dad has hunted since I can remember and even since I was a kid I have loved venison. It never occurred to me before I came to college that not everyone has tried the same types of meat. All my classmates have at least heard of venison while growing up in Wisconsin and then when I brought venison back from the doe I shot this year everyone wanted to try it because they had never tried it. It shocked me, I was so used to everyone already knowing what it was and liking it.
I searched venison on Zimmern's Bizarre Food's and was expecting to find dishes from somewhere in the Midwest, but to my surprise found a venison dish from Toledo, Spain. Before starting this post I had never really thought of other countries enjoying the great taste of venison like I do. Here's a paragraph about the cuisine from Toledo, "It is easy to dine very well in Toledo. Because the province is the hunting center of Spain (a hugely profitable business), game dishes are excellent. The highly sought-after red partridge is typical of Toledo cuisine. It is generally prepared in one of two ways: pickled and eaten cold, or a la toledana, cooked slowly with onion, garlic and bayleaf and eaten hot." I really want to try this now, so I might actually change my view of leaving the United States to experience differences around the world.
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