and almost immediately started wondering what penguin meat actually tastes like. Ever seen it on a menu? Yeah, us neither. But that doesn’t mean people haven’t. This account of an early ...

If this sounds delicious, then your stomach serves you well. That’s how famous polar explorer Frederick Cook described the taste of penguin meat, and that is how you cure yourself of scurvy in ...

But even that became hard to stomach. The first time they cooked up a slab of penguin meat, the only game in town (the town = huge glaciers of ice and nothing else), “it tasted somehow like both ...

The meat has a natural sweetness that may not be to everybody’s taste, but is certainly to mine when grilled over an open fire.” A particularly unflattering description of penguin meat ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

“One of my favorite lines from the whole thing about that expedition,” Anthony said, “was that the French were pretty happy with penguin meat. They compared it favorably to mule.” How did ...

Because Amundsen and his Belgica shipmate Frederick Cook ate penguin meat, they were able to stave off scurvy—a vitamin C deficiency that plagued nearly every explorer of the Heroic Age.

This happens due to the unique composition of the albumen in penguin eggs. Penguin eggs and meat have historically been a food source for people in Antarctica. Penguin eggs have a fishy taste ...