2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumQuick primary cooking question
Can crow be used as the meat in humble pie?
Land of Enchantment
(1,217 posts)This is a raven, not a crow.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Then again, as you well know, I am birdbrain!
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Or was that the revenge filling?
merrily
(45,251 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)certainly they never show cooking thrushes on PBS
merrily
(45,251 posts)I don't want Land of Enchantment to get upset, but
http://www.pompeii-food-and-drink.org/recipes.htm
http://davidlansing.com/how-to-cook-a-song-thrush/
https://books.google.com/books?id=CvNJXPb7wnIC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=thrush+bird+tongues+recipe&source=bl&ots=Mx-RPesbjx&sig=ETzziiftIHMwrko7kETh-hhvKI8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirxJmm15PMAhVFMz4KHTjPCVIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=thrush%20bird%20tongues%20recipe&f=false
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)It didn't seem like a big step.
merrily
(45,251 posts)It's just that Italy is not the only nation that cooks birds, so I didn't see the connection off the bat (no pun intended--not looking for a bat stew).
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)to capture birds during the fall migration from Europe to Africa.
I wouldn't argue they are the only one that does this.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Blackbirds are in the crow family.
Sing a Song of Sixpence
By Mother Goose
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing
Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?
The king was in the counting-house
Counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey,
The maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes.
Along came a blackbird
And snipped off her nose.
Land of Enchantment
(1,217 posts)Your namesake continues to sing to us every morning and now we carry on conversations, each taking a turn. Here's somthing from a while back but still delicious...
Bernie gets the golden finch...
And Hillary gets the albatross (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)...
merrily
(45,251 posts)I see the Ancient Mariner. At a yard sale, a friend found the poem in book form--a huge, narrow book. It must be at lease 2.5 feet tall. I've never seen anything like it.
The Rime (sic) is a downer. I felt so bad for the Mariner: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173253
Land of Enchantment
(1,217 posts)thank you. I was sort of trying to make a metaphor for the Mariner killing the bird to HRC killing the Political Revolution...and of course, I love birds too! I hope your friend bought the book, that is awesome! Here's a nice photo of an albatross that's an upper---
Magnificent birds!
merrily
(45,251 posts)She just laid the book on the floor in the living room where it was not in the flow of foot traffic. . It was old, cloth covered hardback. Shredding, some but it still looked fantastic. I never would have known what to do with it, so I probably would have passed it by. I am so glad she did not.