Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1917 — To Eat Seal Meat. [ARTICLE]

To Eat Seal Meat.

Scarcity of meat in Norway has impelled the Revictualling commission to introduce the flesh of seals to the public. Whale meat was a favorite food in France in the middle ages, and whale’s tongue was prized as a delicacy. But whales have become scarce in European wafers of late years and their meat rare. Seals, however, are killed by the thousand every spring on the coasts of northern Norway, Spltzbergen and Nova Zembla. Sealers brought 60,000 carcasses to Norway last year. These are not the fur seals, but those from whose skin leather is made. To foster the use of seal meat the commission has sent woman lecturers In household economics to give public demonstrations of the best ways to cook it.