Memo
[Baby Bee Tsukudani]
The wisdom in all of this is finding the beehive! In open areas beehive hunters attach cotton to bait (chicken, shrimp, frog). When the bee comes to take some of the bait it takes some cotton with it making it easy to follow the bee to its hive. In mountainous areas where this is difficult they measure the time it takes the bee to return to its hive and come back to the bait. This gives them an idea of how far the nest is. Watching which way the bee flies, they set bait on a stick closer to the hive narrowing down the distance to the hive until they can follow the bee right to the hive!

[Cooked Sparrow]
Apparently in the old days sparrow and other small birds were commonly eaten in Gifu. Recently peoples' tastes have changed and it is even difficult to get ahold of local birds. This particular restaurant imports their sparrow from China. The dish is full of protein and calcium.

How was it?
[Baby Bee Tsukudani]
Ten on the 1 to 10 scale of tsukudani (a type of dish which uses soysauce, sugar, and mirin to boil down and preserve any of many types of small fish or insects). It was very soft, sweet and even had a slight tender meat taste to it.

[Cooked Sparrow]
Crunchy. With a big mouthful of rice to go down with it it was bad.

Gifu!
Gifu Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture. In the old days there were few sources of protein so locals supplemented their protein diets with things like bees, grasshoppers and small birds. This continues today and some people continue to love the taste of their traditional foods. Gifu Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture. In the old days there were few sources of protein so locals supplemented their protein diets with things like bees, grasshoppers and small birds. This continues today and some people continue to love the taste of their traditional foods.

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