INVASIVE EATS.

"The meat was actually lovely, it was this dark purple-red color", Esterson says of the novel protein. Andrew Esterson, the institute's habitat restoration program director, served up his triedand-true chile verde, but sidelined the traditional pork for something less expected: swamp rat, a semi-aquatic rodent also known as nutria or coypu. Gathered in a vineyard near Wren, Oregon, hungry guests eyed a buffet littered with culinary oddities: Wild nettle crescent buns featuring mustard blossom butter. TRY IT YOURSELF If you aren't much of a hunter, plenty of brick-and-mortar and online shops offer wild boar meat, said to be more delicious than domestic pork due to its leaner body. [Extracted from the article]