In an effort to popularize gibier cuisine, which uses wild animals as ingredients, students in the gibier club at a high school in Kochi City served hamburgers made with deer meat.
Kochi Commercial High School in Kochi City has a "Gibier Club" that aims to effectively use wild animals such as deer that damage crops as ingredients, and develops original dishes and holds sales events. increase.
On the 16th, at the Kochi City Hall cafeteria, three of the 14 club members cooked and sold four types of dishes, including a hamburger steak using deer meat caught in the prefecture and a wild boar meat curry.
Those who ordered were enjoying the high school students' original dishes.
A woman in her 60s who ate the hamburger said, "It's delicious because it's firm, lean meat that's unique to gibier. I think it's wonderful that high school students learn about wild animals and use them in cooking."
Ms. Yuna Shiraishi, a first-year student at the Gibier Club, said, "The appeal of gibier is that you can enjoy various flavors depending on the parts and cooking methods. I want people to be interested in the taste of gibier and nature conservation activities through cooking." I was.
The food will be served at Kochi City Hall until the 18th, and part of the sales will be donated to forest protection activities that have been damaged by wild animals.