| Show WILDEST OF ALL MEATS IS RACCOON southern epicure admires its flavor and regrets that its use Is not more common the wildest meat I 1 ever tasted in my life said an epicure is the meat of the raccoon it has a flavor about it which you cannot find in any other meat so far as my experience goes I 1 have spent much of my I 1 te fe in hunt ing in the wilder regions of this coun try and have had splendid opportune opp aties to know the particular flavors of various wild meats deer doer meat is al most tasteless in comparison with other means of a wild kind I 1 was about to say the flavor was scarcely distinctive but this is not exactly a fact for there Is just a suggestion of wildness about venison it if it is not too highly seasoned bear meat is just a trifila more wild in flavor but not wild enough to be offensive to the man whose taste is acquainted with food of a tamer kind possum meat meat is de cestive possum meat am good and sweet as the old negro song runs and yet it is a fact that there are but few per sons who are capable of distinguish ing between carefully prepared and ft ell cooked possum meat and the meat of a very young pig baked with sweet potatoes and served with the usual condiments it Is almost imps sible for a man whose taste Is not keen to an extraordinary degree to tell possum from pig coon meat Is different there can be no mistake abot abbit t the meat of this animal it Is strong awfully strong and no amount of seasoning no amount of flavoring will rob it of that taste of wildness which is peculiarly its own it Is not a bad taste when you get ased ased to it I 1 rather like it if it Is properly prepared there are very few persons who knew how to prepare and cook a coon however and I 1 suppose this is because the meat is rarely found except in more remote sections but it is good meat and I 1 would like to see its use more general |
