For the second time in my life, last night I ate alligator.
I was celebrating.
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- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
7 comments:
Taste like chicken?
Uh, not really. It's denser. Spicier. It tastes good, I think.
It IS good. I had it the last time I was in New Orleans. It was deep fried and I had it with french fries and a beer. Yum.
is it blubbery? it their legs look ultra muscular, but the bellies, not so much.
we got no crocs or gaters up here, but i've had bear - in stew and jerked/smoked...
i hated it in the stew..it was gamey and guhreasy, but i LOVED it jerked, and especially smoked.
The cuts I had last night almost remind me of something like cube steak, though better. It didn't seem esp. greasy, though it was deep fried, so....
Oliver,
But doesn't something deep-fried mostly taste like something deep-fried?
I love okra, deep-fried...if it's in little bits, about half an inch long...but even just seeing okra any other way, and I gag.
So if I was gonna try something new, that would be the way to do it.
I like frog legs, sauteed in butter or in olive oil, and they're amphibian... So it seems like alligator would be a good thing to try.
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