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	7 foods for the fearless eater - Food - MSNBC.com
		Once captured, the ortolan would traditionally be left in a dark box, where the lack of light would prompt it to gorge itself. When plumped up to three or four times its normal size, the bird would be drowned in a snifter of armagnac, then quickly roasted for six or eight minutes and served hot.
		The traditional means of eating the ortolan is whole — bones, innards and all, except the head or beak, which is bitten off — with the diner's head covered by a napkin.
		The ortolan's most recent brush with fame came in 1998, when it was revealed to have been a pivotal course in former French President François Mitterand's last meal. A week before dying of cancer, Mitterand ordered a grand feast for 30 that included oysters, foie gras and a long row of two-ounce ortolans.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9687163/page/3 (495 words)

	The centralized church, like other Renaissance architectural ideals, lived its life almost exclusively in the realm of ...
		One was a grand wedding feast in which the guests were served directly from Heaven, the other a small Carnival celebration in which four Cardinals were invited to dine in Hell.
		While the Pesaro feast of Heaven was conceived as an intellectual exercise inspired by neoplatonic philosophy, the purpose of Strozzi’s banquet of death was to envelop the guests with an intense sensory experience.
		Finally the table was taken away, the lights rekindled and a whole new feast, this one rich and regal, was brought in by splendid servants, followed by the performance of a comedy.
	www.history.ucla.edu /events/coll-conf/eurocoll/Ut_Pictura_Convivia.htm (7452 words)

	Photos from Medal of Honor Rag
		The crunching occurred Saturday at Le Cirque, the famed East Side restaurant.
		The surprise dish was ortolan, a bird the French government tries to protect.
		The ortolan migrates between Africa and southwestern France, where it long has been served piping hot and eaten whole ~ beak, bones and all.
	members.aol.com /algonkuin/medal/medal-pix.html (173 words)

	eG Forums -> Medieval Cookbook
		It is divided into three sections: a history of noble feasts, including the banquet at King Henry V's coronation in 1413, a calendar of seasonal foods and a list of ingredients.
		This was followed by dishes of venison, antelope, porpoises and a range of fish, including carp, perch, and lamprey, on which King Henry I is said to have gorged himself to death.
		Harris said menus for a feast for George Nevill, who became archbishop of York in 1465, list a wide range of bird dishes including sparrows, gannets, gulls, larks and peacocks.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=7957 (1059 words)

	Find in a Library: The feast of ortolans; a play in one act,
		Find in a Library: The feast of ortolans; a play in one act,
		The feast of ortolans; a play in one act,
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/74c223f80950a52c.html (74 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Etiquette and Advice Manuals - Dinners and Diners, by Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis, 1899 ...
		Next to the friend of the Turk was an ex-M.P., and next to him again one of the humorists of the present House of Commons—an Irish Q.C., with clean- shaven, powerful face.
		At the long tables sat as proper a set of gentlemen as ever gathered to a feast; but with no special characteristics to distinguish them from any other great assemblage.
		The snow- white hair of a clergyman told out vividly against the background of old oak, and a miniature volunteer officer’s decoration caught my eye as I looked down the table.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications2/dinners-19.htm (936 words)

	ChefTalk Cooking Forums - Shhh! They're eating birds. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		11-13-2001 03:14 PM My "favorite" recipe for ortolans involved grilling them whole over vine trimmings, then laying them into a baguette, wrapping it up in paper and then eating it the next day.
		They're brown backed, with pinkish bellies, part of the yellowhammer family, and when they fly, they tend to keep low to the ground and, when the wind is high, swoop crazily for lack of weight.
		He later contrasted it with, the chef, an atheist, did not take the bird beneath a napkin, and he just pops it in his mouth.
	www.cheftalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=5023 (956 words)

	Poetic Dictionary :: hospitality
		This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
		Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!
		Every house was an inn, where all were welcomed and feasted.
	www.poetic-dictionary.com /h/hospitality.htm (243 words)

	The Fitz-Boodle Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray : Arthur's Classic Novels
		The other day I smuggled a couple of them into my chambers, and had a little feast of cream and strawberries to welcome them.
		But it had like to have cost the nursery-maid (a Swiss girl that Fitz-Boodle hired somewhere in his travels) her place.
		My step-mamma, who happened to be in town, came flying down in her chariot, pounced upon the poor thing and the children in the midst of the entertainment; and when I asked her, with rather a bad grace to be sure, to take a chair and a share of the feast--
	arthursclassicnovels.com /arthurs/thack/fitzb10.html (16816 words)

	Algonkuin Who's Who: G ~ L
		Jane is a Gemini which means don’t bother her or her other half will get you and is now a veteran of Algonkuin Players, this being the 5th show she’s done with them [Zoo Story (Music Lover), The Feast of Ortolans (La Harpe), Creation Stories (first woman), Elegy for an Icon (Cheri/Wyncombon)].
		Jane would like to thank the director, Mallory Matthies-Diedrich for giving her this opportunity and bears her no ill-will that Mallory thought of her first when casting for the “Shrew.” After this show, Jane would like to take a break from acting for a while, that is, if Margaret will let her.
		And his first task is to petition to change the theatre company’s name to The Dislocated Players.
	members.aol.com /algonkuin/bio_g_l.html (2099 words)

	Maxwell Anderson Papers
		Anderson also wrote several one-act plays, including: The Feast of Ortolans (1937); Second Overture (1938); The Miracle of the Danube (1941); Your Navy (1942); Letter to Jackie (1944).
		Several of these plays were written specifically for the radio.
		Beginning on page 101 is a short play entitled The Feast of Ortolans.
	www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/og50.html (969 words)

	Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais - Full Text Free Book (Part 13/16)
		it was plentifully to feast with; and that, of this contribution and
		store of sweetmeats; and thus the feasting was revived.
		preparations in thy life for an infernal feast.
	www.fullbooks.com /Gargantua-and-Pantagruel13.html (16302 words)

	Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
		Ended your schemes of pleasure and of pride,
		In joyous feasts no one will there preside,
		Whose tender youth does now our eyes engage,
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rbear/montagu.html (13418 words)

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