Alaskan Thanksgiving Feast: Whale Meat

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Alaskan Thanksgiving Feast: Whale Meat
By RACHEL D'OROThe Associated PressFriday, November 17, 2006; 7:02 PM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- David Smith was a new arrival to the North Slope village of Nuiqsut last year when the former resident of upstate New York cooked up a few turkeys and vat of chili for the Eskimo community's Thanksgiving dinner. He was completely unprepared for another dish on the menu: hundreds of pounds of gleaming red, raw whale meat, served frozen solid in bite-size pieces.
"I thought we were going to have a feast. I never assumed it would be a feast of whale meat," said Smith, 76, the village administrator

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