Mona’s artist in residence Kirsha Kaechele has published a cookbook unlike any other. Here are some recipes that you could actually make – if you dare
I am fascinated by invasive species, and the philosophy around the idea of “invasive”. I grew up on the island of Guam, which made me a kind of invader myself. And while living there, I saw how an outrageous explosion in the number of invasive brown tree snakes destroyed the native bird population. They killed our island bird, made it extinct.
In Louisiana too, where I lived for many years, there was a huge invasion of nutria, a kind of giant swamp rat that eats the roots of marsh plants and erodes the landscape. Louisiana is washing away. The ecologists responded with a government-sanctioned cull, and the local sheriff placed an $8 bounty on their tails. But no one thought to use the animal, so there were carcasses floating everywhere. And I just kept thinking: what a waste – their fur is beautiful and their meat tastes great – so why aren’t they being put to use? I was inspired to ask artists to make things from nutria for the 2008 New Orleans biennial, and that was the beginning of Eat the Problem.
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