Do any metro-Vancouver restaurants serve seal meat?
I am a former chef, and worked in Hotels all across Canada when with a major hotel chain, and the only coast they seal hunt is on the east coast, mostly off of Newfoundland, and they use mature seals, and the flippers are the only part along with the fat (Blubber) that is used, the fat is still used in some area by Native people and the Inuit for lamp oil, or food. Seal flippers are salted and dried to preserve them, then soaked, and boiled then stewed in a stew like sauce for a meat pie like dish, I made and ate it when working at the Hotel Newfoundland when with CP Hotels back in the 1980’s. It is not an everyday type of food, they eat it more in the winter, but produce them for sale at most times of the year, and are for sale at some grocery stores and bakery’s in St Johns or other parts of Newfoundland.
