Posted: April 29th, 2010

eating an Ortolan bunting

Category: PLAIN

quite awesome, i wouldn’t want to eat it though.

a passage from Wikipedia.

For centuries, a rite of passage for French gourmets has been the eating of the Ortolan. These tiny birds—captured alive, force-fed, then drowned in Armagnac—were roasted whole and eaten that way, bones and all, while the diner draped his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and, some believe, to hide from God.