- Hoosh
Hoosh (occasionally spelt hooch [cite web |url=http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/themes/antarctica/gallery/resource/?id=560 |title=Sledging rations |accessdate=2007-04-25 |last=Ponting |first=Herbert |work=Antarctica Extreme Wilderness |publisher=
Royal Geographical Society ] ) is a thickstew made frompemmican (a mix of dried meat,fat , and cereal) or other meat, thickener such as groundbiscuit s, and water. [cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s416262.htm |title=Antarctic English... |accessdate=2007-03-12 |date=2002-01-05 |work=Lingua Franca |publisher=ABC] [cite web |url=http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/AquaticEcosystems/Antarctica/Glossary.cfm |title=Antarctic Expedition: Glossary |accessdate=2007-03-12 |publisher=Smithsonian National Zoological Park ] [cite book |last=Hince |first=Bernadette |title=The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English |year=2000 |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |location= |isbn=095774711X |pages=169] It was the common food of early twentieth century Antarctic expeditions, used, for example, by the expeditions ofRobert Falcon Scott (1910-1913) andErnest Shackleton (1914-1916). [cite journal |last=Priestly |first=Raymond E. |year=1914 |month=January |title=Work and Adventures of the Northern Party of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.2307/1778808 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398(191401)43%3A1%3C1%3AWAAOTN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |accessdate=2007-03-12] [cite web |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0402/expert.html |title=Ask "Adventure" |accessdate=2007-03-12 |year=2004 |month=February |work=National Geographic Adventure]Sometimes, the term was also used for mixed food rations for ponies and mules (e.g. in "The Worst Journey of the World" by
Apsley Cherry-Garrard ).ee also
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List of Antarctica expeditions References
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