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Purple pearls and alligator parmesan: Adventures in wild food

Something Offbeat
Something Offbeat
Episode • Sep 19, 2022 • 11m

When a man bit down on something hard while eating clams at a Delaware restaurant this summer, his first thought was that something was in his food. It turned out to be a rare purple clam pearl, and got the Something Offbeat team thinking about other exotic foods.

In this episode, host Mike Rogers talks to Scott Overland, the man who found the pearl, and explores the culinary art behind preparing wild game with Chef Brian Jupiter of Chicago's Frontier restaurant

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