Re: consumption of mammoth meat

[Martin Adamson <MARTIN@srv0.ems.edinburgh.ac.uk>]

> One of the more chilling descriptions of this is in Aleksandr
> Solzhenitsyn's writings (reference at home...), in which he begins
> by quoting a TASS report on a frozen mammoth being eaten by
> its discoverers. What the report omitted, he goes on to write,
> is that the finders were zeks imprisoned in the Gulag, and that
> we can only imagine their desperation to eat such a thing.

I was thinking of that very reference myself!  I had a quick look for it
this morning and couldn't find it.  I seem to remember that it was some
kind of fish rather than a mammoth though.  I think it is in the
introduction or the first chapter of Volume 1 of _The Gulag Archipelago_.

Martin