“Agreeable To The Taste” Like A Sirloin Steak: The Modern People Who Ate Mammoth Meat

Countless humans have eaten mammoth, although most were hungry hunter-gatherers struggling to survive during the Ice Age. Since the last mammoths fell into extinction 4,000 years ago, very few people in the modern age have tasted their meat – or so you would assume. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

One story from the turn of the 20th century involves Otto Ferdinandovich Herz, a Russian scientist, who had returned to St Petersburg after unearthing a mammoth carcass from the ice near the Berezovka River in Siberia.

While the mammoth was being stuffed and mounted for display at the Imperial Museum, Herz realized that the flesh would not be required and essentially go to waste, so he decided to serve it at an elaborate b