Four top French chefs want to overturn a ban on serving a tiny songbird called the ortolan, long seen in France as the pinnacle of gastronomic delight that connoisseurs such as the late president François Mitterrand used to eat whole and, as tradition demanded, with a napkin draped over their heads. He is thought to have eaten an ortolan as his last meal before he died!
Mitterand might have enjoyed eating the bird, he also enjoyed liaisons with many, many women, should he be held up as a paragon of virtue?
Val says this bird is on the endangered list and could easily be lost forever and these fools are taking about cooking it and eating with a napkin over your head, beggars belief.
Malc says perhaps it has some aphrodisiac qualities!
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