Interesting book.
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Re. Survival skills
I chat with some gals at work about cooking. I asked them if they ever cleaned a bird, e.g. chicken, quail, dove.
Of course, nobody ever did. So I told them one day I would shoot a dove in the yard and bring it and show them how to clean a bird.

2 days ago my dog snagged à big dove in the yard. When I found it, it was still floppy fresh so I took it to work.
I asked everybody if they wanted to learn how to clean a bird.
Those towny  gals freaked out at the sight of the dead bird.
So sad that these kids don't have any desire to learn even a most basic survival skill.

You just cook it in the microwave, right? 

You just cook it in the microwave, right? 

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Yup, 3 minutes on high until it stops flopping around.

Foxfire lite?

Foxfire lite?

I have a full set of the foxfire books

Even in the restaurant kitchen not to many ppl know how to clean fish or whole animals, even more know who to cure meats or how to preserve them ie smoking, drying, etc