Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Monday, October 29, 2007

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Monday, October 29, 2007

You don't like rats, bogongs or bugs, maybe you like the ortolan bunting...

Although it's been illegal in France since 1988 to capture a small songbird called the ortolan bunting, poachers still decimate its numbers in pursuit of its crunchy, hazelnut-like taste. Former French president Mitterrand feasted on the birds in 1995. They are drowned in Armagnac, roasted wit... Sign in to see full entry.

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