New Delhi: Those who eat humans are known as cannibals. Cannibals have existed on earth since early times.
From animals to humans they can eat anything. Eating their own people is a custom of their community.They don't eat raw flesh, they invariably either boil, roast or smoke it.
In his 1931 book Jungle Ways, American adventurer and journalist William Buehler Seabrook provided the world's most detailed written description of the taste of human flesh.
Seabrook noted that, in raw form, human meat looks like beef, but slightly less red, with pale yellow fat.
When roasted, the meat turned grayish, as would lamb or veal, and smelled like cooked beef.
As for the taste, Seabrook wrote, “It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal.”
Though earlier there were many tribes around the world, where cannibalism was a practice but with the development many of such tribes are extinct now.
The only tribe which still practises cannibalism is the Korowai tribe in south-eastern Papua.They are also known as Kolufu.
They are the only living humans who still eat human flesh. They live in the south-eastern part of the western part of the New Guinea.
