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Snake in a Pot

Author: Stephanie Pierson
illustration by Sergio Ruzzier
My friend Anne, who's living in Hong Kong for a year, is taking a cooking class. This week's lesson, she tells me in an e-mail: how to cook snake. Snake?! Wow, I answer, that sounds fabulous/nauseating/amazing/more fun than shopping for cheap pearls; tell me more. So Anne e-mails me her class notes.

Online Stock Market Trading Snake 101 highlights: Anne's teacher, Annie Wong, is completely comfortable with snakes (luckily). When she was a child, she recalls, a man would come weekly to her family's house with a bag that was visibly writhing, seize a snake, and cut out the gallbladder for the family, who would later prick it and drink the bitter bile, which was thought to be rejuvenating.

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Stock Investing Course Snake, says Wong, is most often eaten in winter because it warms the body. Snakes are easier to catch then, too, because they're fat from hibernating. Then she demonstrates how to make snake soup (even a poisonous snake will do, because when you chop off the head you get rid of the venom glands). The recipe, Anne assures me, is simplicity itself: ''Remove bone from one headless, skinned snake. Place snake in a wok of boiling water for a bit. Remove tendons, and put them, along with bone, in a pot of water. Add a chicken (minus breast), some Yunnan ham, black peppercorns, ginger, and aged tangerine peel. Boil three to four hours, and strain to remove tiny bones. Add snake meat and chicken breast, wood ear fungus, dried mushrooms, and more ginger. Thicken with water chestnut starch; garnish with lemon leaves and a white chrysanthemum.''

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Stock Market Game How did the result taste? Better than it looked, Anne assures me. Would she order it in a restaurant? Anne thinks not. Her verdict: Unless you've grown up with it, snake is more a phobia than a food. But, she points out, it sure seems healthful, and you can't top snake when it comes to versatility. It can become a soup, a stew, a stir-fry. And with a little extra effort, you can turn it into a terrific pair of pumps.

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