At 09:49 AM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: > What do they taste like? Do you cook them the same way as say, a bald eagle? > >Greg Egret are actually pretty good. Eagles are very tough. They are both efficient predators but of a totally different school of hunting. The egret is a patient and unhurried stalker who will wait half an hour to impale one small frog. The eagle on the other hand hunts and kills much larger prey at top speed. Egret is tender and moist and can be fried, roasted, or (my personal favorite) slow cooked on the barbecue with much slathering on of good old KC Masterpiece. An egret breast is just a little more than one man can eat. Eagle, on the other hand, is stringy and tough. One recipe mentions boiling the carcass for four hours, throwing it out and then eating tree bark. Hope this helps. Dave East Englewood ---------------------------- "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." - Horace Fletcher (1849-1919)
