A little something from
Surviving Extremes by Nick Middleton. Although you can whip this up without even lighting the stove, if you're holding a dinner party you'll have to prepare pretty far in advance...
'A local delicacy,' she said. 'It's a seal stuffed with seabirds'
Interesting, I thought to myself. But unusual though the ingredients were , I still couldn't decide why their smell was so awful.
'They remove the seal's innards,' Eva went on, 'and replace them with the birds, feathers and all. Then they bury the whole thing for a few months until it's ready.'
'They don't cook it?'
'Oh no, that's why it smells so terrible. The Inuit love it.'st cancel that gourmet weekend in Greenland I had booked for Easter...