Re: Sea Slug Recipes

July 5, 1998
From: Bruce Hallman

Going from memory, I recall reading Elie Hunt sea cucumber recipes too, which suggests that sea slugs were actually eaten by the Kwakuitl. Lots of the food they ate were quite gross relative to my 20th century palate. You might search out the source document, which was one of the many "annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithstonian Institution", this was published in 1914, I think. Franz Boaz was the ethnologist. Worth about $100 US on the used book market, or in most good libraries.
Bruce Hallman
www.hallman.org/~bruce/

Hallman, B., 1998 (Jul 5) Re: Sea Slug Recipes. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/102

Dear Bruce, Thanks for your reply. If their "sea slug" was an opisthobranch mollusc I would be surprised, not for aesthetic reasons but because the most likely candidate (a sea hare) is potentially fairly lethal. Similar species in the tropical Pacific have caused fatalities ... Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 1998 (Jul 5). Comment on Re: Sea Slug Recipes by Bruce Hallman. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/102

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