Seafood has been the basis of local cooking for many years. Apart from shrimp and squid familiar to many gourmets, here you can try a lot of other unusual types of seafood. Orlando's restaurants serve exotic shellfish, while upscale ones offer amazing dishes from turtle and crocodile meat. Alligator meat has long been a common local product, which can be purchased at all local markets and even in supermarkets. A very interesting local delicacy is sausage prepared from a mixture of pork and alligator meat.
Currently, several specialized farms in the vicinity of Orlando breed alligators for gastronomic purposes. Of course, they can be visited with tours. Fragrant turtle soup is another well-known dish for many local residents, which may seem an exotic delicacy to foreign guests. Turtles are also bred on special farms for local restaurants.
Discerning gourmets and all fans of seafood would be happy to visit Orlando in October. At this time, local fishermen begin harvesting a rare delicacy - stone crabs. Only crab claws are used for the preparation of fine dishes, so the whole process is considered quite humane. When fishermen catch crabs, they just unscrew one claw and release them. By the next season, a new claw grows back, so such manipulations do not threaten the lives of these marine creatures at all.
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