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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Potted Pigeon also nouvelle cuisine
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:32:18 -0400

Don't eat the messenger!

Mark


> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:23:46 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Potted Pigeon also nouvelle cuisine
> 
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> --------------------
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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