Travel Diary: On the Good Ship Queen Mary 2, Part 3

Pictured above is a civet cat ( (Civettictis civetta ). It is not actually a cat, but its own lil' beastie, a meso-level carnivore native to Africa and Asia. The other night the menu in the ship's restaurant offered "Braised Wild Mushroom Civit" as an entree. What could that be, I wondered? The only "civet" I knew of was a small carnivorous mammal native to Asia and Africa. "Surely they didn't…