Walter Traprock wrote:

> did people use to eat mammoth meat early last century? i've
> just read about being served mammoth meat by the Czar of Russia,
> meat dug up that's been frozen for thousands of years. there was
> no comment on the taste of he meat. book: sea devil's fo'c'sle,
> by lowell thomas (1929). OK, i'll quote all of it relating to mammoth:
>
> "and then there was mammoth's meat. It had been dug up in Siberia
> out of the ice, where it had been kept naturally refrigerated
> for thousands of years. Eating that ancient mammoth's meat is
> more common now, but then it was something new and startling."

Sometime back in the 30s the Explorer's Club in NYC had a
banquet in which one of the items on the menu was mammoth
meat [unless it was mastodon meat; I no longer remember].
I had occasion to talk with one of the people who had been
at that banquet and asked him what it tasted like. He
told me it tasted like mud.

No, I can't give you any more detail. I don't remember his
name; some friend of the family I met back around 1956.

Charles