Food, Glorious Food

   As we all know, food is obviously important.  Each and every one of us have our own cultural delicacy that we grew up with or that we love.  Most of us have the need or craving for food when that specific food isn't around.

   We, Inuit students, grew up with our own Inuit delicacy.  Most of us know what kind of food I am talking about.  The main meat we eat now is caribou and arctic char.  The other animals we can eat are goose meat, ptarmigan.  However, they are all only available to pursue in the north.

   Most of us are not able to have our own kind of food here in the south, but sometimes it is made possible to have it brought down.  We either bring the food with us or have someone send it.

   The first photo is of my cousin, Igulik, who just made her suvalik.  Suvalik is popular in the summertime when the berries are available.  It is made with fish eggs crushed and stirred by hand with oil and water.  It is not an easy task to make it.  Suvalik is like our own dessert.  The creamy-like suvaklik is added with berries and it's delicious even though most might find it appetizing by the sounds of it.

   Igulik is a first-year college student.  She goes to Marie-Victorin in Montreal-North.  She is experiencing the life in the south for the first time.  It's not easy for most of us, but she is still standing high.  She was able to have her berries and fish eggs brought down by a friend.

   The second photo is of my friend who was kind enough to bring and share her food with me.  In the photo, she is plugging the feathers and fur off of a ptarmigan.  In the wintertime, ptarmigans are available.  It is also a good delicacy.