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Apr 11 2007 - 6:57am This week's
TV Dinner is a little bit spectacular, and unfortunately one that you're not going to be able to make at home (at least not easily and not without getting the health board, peta and animal control upset at you).
I have a thing for older cookbooks, and recently I came across one by food historian Esther B. Aresty called
The Delectable Past (1964).
Oscar De La Renta
Mango
Mariano Napoli
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Yum! This looks o good, will try this out for sure someday.
1Just kidding! Im not too sure about this recipe! lol
2All I can say is Ick!
3this is hilarious.
4What if the birds poop on the way out?? Doesn't sound very hygenic. But maybe its fun to watch.
5Lux
I love it - what a great find Yum! I actually ended up looking this up, to see how the tradition started because I'm pretty obsessed with the idea.
"During the Medieval times, there were occasions when the cook in the house of a wealthy knight did indeed put live birds (often pigeons, but I'm sure it could just as easily have been blackbirds) inside a huge pastry crust, on his own initiative. This was seen as a great joke and the cook would usually have a real pie waiting to bring in when the birds had been released."
Check out more details here.
Who would have thunk it? I'm amazed and amused.
6LOL extremely amusing yum & geek! lol.
its SOOO gross tho
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