When You Are Desperate to eat
Cleaning Freshly Caught Conch, Marquesas Keys, Florida, 1959, Courtesy of the Florida Memory Project
Our current economic down turn and high employment numbers has Inspired to do some eating and desperate time stories. Here’s a story from sources on West Africa I found and saved almost two decades ago when researching and writing the book Hog and Hominy. On the sea shore I saw two species of conch weighing about five or six pounds. The local broil and preserve it for times of famine. It’s tough and bland, yet a great relief when one is desperate for something to eat. Michel Adanson, 1759
