Elena Nakashima wrote:
>
> Bob Pastorio > wrote in message >...
> > Kenneth Leja wrote:
> >
> > > And how do you eat it?
> >
> > Country folks hereabouts in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia eat
> > local snapping turtles and claim they have 7 different meats.
> >
> > Different parts of the critter, so they claim, have different flavors
> > and chewing characteristics. In my experience, I've seen three, the
> > feet, the upper legs and neck, and the body meat. Different like pork
> > has different kinds of meat in different parts.
> >
> > The legs taste like chicken. The rest is, well, different.
> >
> > Pastorio
>
> I personally like turtles too much to kill them. They are beautiful
> animals. But for those who hunt turtles, how do they kill them?
> Indeed, why kill an animal that nature went to such trouble to
> protect. If God gave turtles a hard shell, it must be for a good
> reason.

My Doubleday cookbook had complete instructions on how to process a live turtle...

Usually you are dealing with a snapper. You place a stick in front of
their face and they will snap and grab onto it, and NOT let go usually.

You can then stretch out their neck and cut off their head with a pair
of poultry shears.

Never tried it, but that's what the book said...

K.

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