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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Potted Pigeon also nouvelle cuisine
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:23:46 +0200
References: <CA1C4C1D.10279%mark@rabinergroup.com> <ED3234AE-7139-467A-B7D9-092DD3419F70@btinternet.com>

Le 14 juin 11 ? 11:16, Frank Dernie a ?crit :

>
> Hi Mark,
> Pigeon is a delicacy in France too.

They do eat them indeed, no need for them now we have the internet ...

Bien cordialement de France
Philippe



> But not the disease infested town pigeon types, real wild ones. When  
> I was growing up we had any amount of game, Hare, rabbit, pigeon and  
> pheasant on the farm, that is mainly what we ate. Pigeon has a  
> lovely taste but is very small :-)
> Frank Dernie
>
> On 14 Jun, 2011, at 04:22, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>> The Brits apparently find pigeons delicious like the French eat  
>> frogs I saw
>> "The Trip" last night and these guys go to all these nouvelle  
>> cuisine joints
>> out in the amazing English countryside in a Range Rover armed with  
>> killer
>> impressions of Michael Caine and James Bond. And Hugh Grant. And  
>> Anthony
>> Hopkins and a few other Welshman. And they never  shut up.
>> Don't leave home and not see it! Though its great its a tad uneven.  
>> A few
>> hills.
>> My next exotic vacation I'm going to exotic Briton. I may learn  
>> English for
>> the occasion.
>> Oh I almost forgot twice at these various high end restaurants  
>> which are
>> almost like bed and breakfasts the one guy orders Pigeon. And I  
>> don't think
>> it was a metaphore.  Though in nouvelle cuisine mode it may have  
>> been tofu
>> just as well.  Pigeon on the half shell. Here in NY they think of  
>> them as
>> "rats with wings". Me I love them more than the average critter.  
>> Sitting on
>> a park bench they are sometimes all there is to talk to.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --------------------
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>>
>>
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