This is from the Québec episode of "No Reservations" just recently broadcast in Canada. I love Bourdain but it was a bit off-putting to see him gorge himself on just a portion of the many rich dishes brought to him earlier in the show when he dined at Au Pied de Cochon, a famous Montréal restaurant. Seeing him join in the feast of raw seal brought back some of my respect for him. His host family wasn't being ostentatious and they wasted nothing.

I waffled on the NSFW tag. There's an entire seal carcass taken apart on the kitchen floor during the feast, so I decided to be cautious.

I think you need to submit something about the Seal hunting season next... for balance.

"I think you need to submit something about the Seal hunting season next... for balance."

Why? you already have.

FYI I wrote that before I sifted that video.

FYI I wrote that after you sifted the video

FYI Then it's settled.

from reading Scott and the Antarctic.. I discovered that in the last century nobody knew the cause of scurvy . They didn't know it was caused by lack of vitamin C in the diet. cells cannot regenerate properly without vitamin C.

In 1903, the first voyage of scott to antarctic exprienced scurvy and they found that by eating raw seal meat the symptoms were cured or at least helped.

I have a feeling this is important to note.

Settled schmettled. Inuit seal consumption is not the same as clubbing baby seals en masse for the fur industry and the worlds lust for precious things.

Hunting for food in a land as harsh as the arctic is a necessity and will occur until it gets warm enough to grow veggies there.

On balance, would you ask them to starve or leave the arctic?

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