I can hardly credit it -- someone besides me has a copy of "The Northern Cookbook"? (I should say "had"; sadly I gave mine away a few years back, but I continue to remember it fondly.)

I used to leave recipes from the "Arctic cuisine" chapter of that cookbook as outgoing messages on my answering machine. I called them "Stirring recitations." They were short enough to fit in the 20 seconds allowed for outgoing messages, and they tended to go something like this:

Porcupine

Drop porcupine in fire to burn off quills. Put in pot of water. Boil until soft. This is good to eat with muktuk.

Ah, those were the days!

Claire