Liver (food)

In the Romance languages, the anatomical word for "liver" (French foie, Italian fegato, Spanish hígado, etc.)

A traditional South African delicacy, namely skilpadjies, is made of minced lamb's liver wrapped in netvet (caul fat), and grilled over an open fire.

[9] Cod liver (usually tinned in its oil and served seasoned) is a popular spread for bread or toast in several European countries.

[11] Russian sailor Alexander Konrad, who accompanied explorer Valerian Albanov in a tragic ordeal over the Arctic ice in 1912, wrote about the awful effects of consuming polar bear liver.

[12] Also, in 1913, Antarctic explorers on the Far Eastern Party Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz were believed to have been poisoned, the latter fatally, from eating husky liver, though this claim has been recently contested.

In 2012, the Government of Nunavut, Canada warned pregnant women to lower their intake of ringed seal liver due to elevated levels of mercury.

[15] In Pakistan and North India, the liver is eaten traditionally as the first meat of the sacrificial animal during Eid al-Adha.