Eating the Birds of America: Audubon’s Culinary Reviews of America’s Birds - US Bird History

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Eating the Birds of America: Audubon’s Culinary Reviews of America’s Birds - US Bird History (usbirdhistory.com)

Your days are numbered @stupidbird some crazy "science" people want to eat you and document it.

From the post:

>On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1]

Your days are numbered @stupidbird some crazy "science" people want to eat you and document it. Archive: https://archive.today/5oJi3 From the post: >>On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1]

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Audubon claimed that Woodcocks were considered such fine dishes that some who he called epicures ate these birds “with all their viscera, worms and insects to boot, the intestines in fact being considered the most savoury parts.” Audubon, for his part, never joined in this practice.

Blech.