Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

Those little livers are most likely liver flukes. They look surprisingly like a small, thin liver. Liane YUCK - yes I know it's protein, but it's just not within my comfort zone. -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

I eat pea crabs on purpose! If there are enough of them when I'm opening oysters for a feed I'll save them and saute them in butter but sometimes just pop them in my mouth. But the oysters have to be really fresh, less than a week after harvesting. I think that I got the idea from Euell Gibbons boo

[ECOLOG-L] Summary of responses about edible parasites

Thanks to the many people who responded, some off-list. Here's a summary so far, of a very interesting topic. David Inouye My original message cited pea crabs, parasitic on oysters and mussels, (apparently a favorite of George Washington): http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/880556 http://www.s

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

Freshwater mussels (Unionoida) parasitic on fish as larvae (glochidia), are eaten in some parts of the world once they're free-living filter feeding adults. They have not commonly been used as food in North America because they're not especially palatable, because many are threatened species, and

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

I've never heard of pea crabs being consumed on purpose. It's usually when you pop a mussel in your mouth, get a surprise, and go "pfah" and see the little crab on your plate! > At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex, > etc.) the question came up of whether there are

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

I heard that some people eat the "small livers" inside of the deer liver (probably the cyst of some parasitic worm...)... Iulian ᐧ

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

Lamprey has long been considered a delicacy enjoyed by royalty. See http://www.godecookery.com/nboke/nboke68.html for an old recipe. Lamprey pie is still enjoyed in the UK. King Henry I reportedly died of overindulgence in lamprey. Prof. Eric Schultz Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Bio

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

Some mushrooms like Armillariella mellea (honey mushroom). Traditionally, the Inuit eat caribou warble fly larvae (Hypoderma tarandi) Cheers - Peter. --- Peter M. Kotanen Associate Professor Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Univer

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

It depends on whether you view plant fungal endophytes as parasites or mutualists - they can be both. I don't know specifically about the endophyte load in crop plants, but if it is like others then we eat them all the time! On 5/1/2014 9:08 AM, David Inouye wrote: At a dinner conversation wit

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

I think there is a dish with hagfish somewhere and/or possibly lamprey, I saw it on Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods on the travel channel!!! Hagfish prep: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hagfish On top of the corn smut, many of the mushrooms that are eaten are actually fungal parasites of tr

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

    Lobster mushrooms (Hypomyces lactifluorum) are fungi which parasitize other fungi, typically gilled mushrooms, and they're sometimes considered a delicacy by mushroomers.     I happen to consider this an absolutely bone-stupid thing to do, because the Hypomyces usually smothers the host mu

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

In my mycology class, I mentioned examples of parasitic fungi as food and medicine, such as succulent stem of *Zizania latifolia* infected by *Yenia esculenta* (*Ustilago esculenta*); necrotrophic parasites of insect adults, larvae or pupae by caterpillar fungus (*Cordyceps sinensis*), certainly in

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[ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex, etc.) the question came up of whether there are any parasites regularly consumed as food (not unintentionally with your food). I came up with one animal (pea crab) and one fungus (huitlacoche; corn smut). Do you know of others

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