Comments on: Bear cubs: Some assembly necessary? http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/01/19/bear-cubs-arrived-with-some-assembly-necessary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bear-cubs-arrived-with-some-assembly-necessary Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Sat, 25 May 2013 00:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nick Graham http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/01/19/bear-cubs-arrived-with-some-assembly-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-672469 Nick Graham Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:58:40 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=6072#comment-672469 Brickell goes on from there, spending nearly a whole page describing the joys of eating bear. Here’s the rest of the description Lew cites, an appetizing section to read over breakfast: “The young Cubs are a most delicious Dish, as most of the Planters testifie, who prefer their Flesh before Beef, Pork, Veal or Mutton, and it looks as well as it eats, their Fat being as white as Snow, and the sweetest of any Creature in the World; for, if any Person drinks a Quart of it melted, it never rises in the Stomach, as other Oils and Fats are subject to do, and is preferr’d above all things for frying Fish, &c.”

The Duke University Library has digitized their copy of the 1737 edition, available online here: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24992274M/The_natural_history_of_North-Carolina.

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