2024年2月8日 · Delaware has a special love for muskrats, but Eastern Shore Marylanders also eat the creature—Dorchester County even hosts a muskrat skinning competition —and the “marsh rabbit” is also a culinary tradition across the Delaware River in marshy southern New Jersey, which is as different from the north Jersey suburbs as the Delmarva is ...

2016年3月3日 · Every Wednesday night during muskrat season – roughly December through the middle of March – the Southern Grill sells nearly 40 muskrat dinners. The muskrats are broiled and flash-fried whole,...

2024年3月6日 · But, the eating of the muskrat or 'rat, also known as marsh rabbit, at Delaware restaurants seems nearly extinct. These days, muskrat, an heirloom meat if there ever was one, tends to be more...

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2016年2月15日 · Muskrat: It doesn't taste like chicken. While working on my latest story in a Delmarva heritage food series, I learned that the medium-sized, semiaquatic rodent, is quite the local delicacy....

Episode 2: Muskrat. This episode highlights an Eastern Shore favorite: muskrat! Historically, muskrat was prominently featured in the diets of the Shore’s Native American tribes. Today, its popularity has dwindled, but it’s still prepared the old-fashioned way by a number of local cooks and tradition bearers.

Online exhibits created by the curators and librarians at the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.

2015年4月16日 · The centerpiece of Delmarva trapping culture is muskrat, which has been a staple of subsistence farming diets probably since before Europeans were living here. But it was during the 20th century, when technology allowed muskrats to be captured en masse and sold for fur, that the muskrat became a central part of the trapping subculture on Delmarva.

2016年3月2日 · Fried Muskrat at the Southern Grill in Ellendale which serves a Muskrat Dinner every Wednesday night at the Restaurant on Rt. 16 to locals and visitors alike.

Common to wetlands, the muskrat can be found up and down the Delmarva region. They have been trapped for their pelts but also have become a seasonal delicacy at many local restaurants. The muskrat is a rodent that is approximately 25 inches long and weighs around 3 to 4 pounds.