Song Birds at Table.
The wealthy gormqnds of Borne cherished a strong partiality for song birds, s* Both Horace and Martial refer with approved to roast thrush, and Ovid recommends “a crown of thrushes” as a lover’s present to his mistress. Thrushes’ breasts were one of the ingredients of the celebrated Apiciau dish (‘‘Patina apiciana”), ■which also included mushrooms, sow's nddor, fish and chickens, rivaling the heterogeneous contents of a gypsy's ‘‘pot au 1 feu. ” Horace relates that the sons of Acrius, to atimulato thoir appetite for dinner, 'lunched on “nightingales of monstrous -price,” and Yarro toils us of the aviary Sof Lucullus, which was also a “sallo a monger,” so that the epicure gratified his ears and his palate simultaneously, feasting upon the delicate warblers whoso congeners, unconscious of their coming doom, tore discoursing meanwhile the most exquisite music.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1904, Page 4
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140Song Birds at Table. Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1904, Page 4
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