Song Birds at Table.
The wealthy gormands of Borne oherlshed a strong partiality for song birds. Both Horace and Martial refer with approval 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 Apician dish('' Patina apiciana"), which also included mushrooms, sow's udder, fish and chickens, rivaling the heterogeneous contents of a gypsy's "pot au feu." -Horace relates that the sons of Aorius, to stimulate their appetite for dinner, lunched on ' 'nightingales : of monstrous price," and Varro tells us of the aviary of Lucullus, which was also a "salle a manger," so that the epicure gratified his ears and his palate simultaneously, feasting upon the delicate warblers whose congeners, unconscious of their coming doom, were discoursing meanwhile the most exquisite music
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2626, 2 November 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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138Song Birds at Table. Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2626, 2 November 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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