I know a guy from Point Hope Alaska who tells me the natives there survive so well because of their diet. He says that eating all the blubber they do thickens your your blood, whereas eating fruit thins your blood out.
It depends on WHAT you eat, to keep warm out here. Eskimo food has some mighty different properties than anything you have eaten to alter your metabolisim. and this stuff works.
quaq is the eskimo name for eating a hunters breakfast ! quaq (co ak) is raw frozen caribou meat, or raw frozen fish. This is a hunters breakfast. this is what you eat before you go out for the day or if your out and your cold, then you need to eat this type food. It will make you much warmer. At 30 below zero, people are talking clothes off because they are just too hot !!
Plus, it's a dry cold which really does make a HUGE difference.
He invited me to one of their 3 day whaling festivals in June, but I couldn't make it and he had to leave there last year. It's quite the party I'm told. SOMEDAY!
Oh ya, In the Inupiaq language there are no O's or E's, so there's no such thing as an Igloo. Therefore the correct spelling of THAT WORD is Iglu
Iglu = one dwelling place.
Iglut = two dwelling places.
Igluk = three or more dwellings.
ever since the begining of time thousands of years ago, The Inupiaq people have always constructed an iglu out of whale bones and sod ! These ancient ruins are all over the place and still visible here today. and in many villages. From Kotzebue just over the Arctic circle clear up to Barrow and beyond, Kaktovik.
That concludes the lesson for today, lol, but I've got some crazy stories from him and it's a rather fascinating life they lead there.
I'm bummed out now because the weather is playing catch up and is probably going to knock out the power or freeze the pipes.
