2006-12-03 16:42:21 · 14 answers · asked by Tareq m 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Eskimos ate many diffrent kinds of food. Eskimos ate fish, seals, whales, and the other sea mamals. The Eskimos took the flesh off the animal and cooked, dried, or froze the meat. In the summer the Eskimos hunted caribou. The other animals hunted on land are polar bear, fox, and the Arctic bird.
Eskimos used the the whole seal and walrus for different things. The Eskimos used seal for dogfood.They made clothes,and used materials for making boats, tents, and harpoonlines. and for fuel for light and heat all of this is made of walrus and seal skin and fat.
Meat, fat and fish make up a large part of their diet. They didn't have many veggies because they were scarce. They didn't waste any food. But because they depend on fishing and hunting, hunger and starvation is common when fish and game animals were not plentiful. They live mostly on seal and carribou meat. They sometimes even ate berries, roots, stems and other certain parts of plants.
2006-12-03 17:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by amita 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Having been a chef in canada for 20 yrs and worked ina Inuit communitys Hotel in Iqaluit on Baffin Island, some of the foods mentioned by the other are quite amusing, they do eat fish, some other sea mamals like seals, narwal, and the the occasional pilot or meeke whale, but this only when they can find them, and they only take what they need it is not a weekly thing.
And as far as Polar bears, they are a protected species, and they are only killed if they are endangering the communitys they live around. One thing is that any thing we take for granted like apples and orange cost 5X the price we pay in the south.
Most of them are eating more andf more the same things we do, but the outer communitys may eat more of the rustic natural foods fo the land.
We used to cook, caribou, narwal (a form of whale with a long horn), rabbit, ptarmigan (a type of wild bird), musk oxen, deer, fish and other small animals. Mostly for the non-native guests in the hotel.
2006-12-04 16:23:05 · answer #2 · answered by The Unknown Chef 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such staple food for the Eskimos. Basically they even do not have any culture as such. There food consists of roasted fish, prawns, meat of the seals as also the natural vegetation available in the area that is the annual plants growing in the region.
2006-12-04 01:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by Nandu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plain raw flesh is the Eskimo's favorite food...
Other flesh foods, less important because less plentiful than the seal's flesh, are walrus meat, caribou meat, bear, fox, and various birds. These are eaten raw or cooked.
Fish is the staple food during the warmest part of the year. Trout and cod are to be had in plenty and are eaten either fresh (raw or boiled) or dried without salt.
2006-12-04 00:53:04 · answer #4 · answered by rajdebrain 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum. With a twist of lemon/lime colgate toothpaste.
Ah yes, the ekimonians of eskimo...they do love thier gum!
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2006-12-04 00:49:49 · answer #5 · answered by rishi_is_awake 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i saw on oprah a lady who was an eskimo and they ate whale blubber. i forgot what they called it but it looked pretty distgusting. She seemed to really like it though.
2006-12-04 01:58:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ice-cream!
2006-12-04 00:51:37 · answer #7 · answered by sand 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polar fish
2006-12-07 09:20:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caribou.
2006-12-07 18:56:35 · answer #9 · answered by HuniBuniBee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fish seals and whale meat and oil if they can handle the heat of global warming that doesnt governmental exist.
2006-12-04 00:51:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋