DISH OF PORCUPINE
CURIOUS MENU IN PARIS
LONDON, Ist Juno.
"Pass the porcupine" is a phrase heard frequently in the city to-day, states the Paris correspondent of the "Daily .Mail." The French National Zoological Society gave an exotic luncheon, at which roast porcupine was the chief dish. It was pronounced to have the most delicate flavour. Other dishes chosen for their rarity ineluded stewed Sahara lizard, which' had a slight flavour of musk; also pigeon, into the> heart of which a sauce had been injected and pumped through the. flesh.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 June 1927, Page 5
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90DISH OF PORCUPINE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 June 1927, Page 5
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