The Return of the Squirrel as a Game Animal?

Allie both ate squirrels and took advice from them -- until very recently, it was the American thing to do. Then commercial farming made chickens more plentiful, and eventually the chicken replaced the squirrel as the bottom rung in the protein list.

But people are starting to eat squirrels again.

In the south, they've never stopped.

But don't eat ground squirrels, like chipmunks and prairie dogs. They carry Bubonic Plague. Don't eat squirrel brains, either, no matter how tasty -- because apparently squirrels can carry Creutzfeldt-Jakob variant. Truth is, don't eat animal brains, period. Lots of critters can carry Creutzfeldt-Jakob variant. Save those brains for tanning skins.

I used to have terrible trouble with squirrels destroying my feeders. If I'd only had this instructional tape, I'd have started working up a squirrel repertoire! (The article's author suggests braising squirrel in white wine and chicken broth.)