As my friend relished her fried duck livers and asparagus, I took another gulp of my cocktail and apologized for the half eaten fowl fetus on my plate.
The redesigned nose of the Shinkansen Bullet Train in Japan took inspiration from the kingfisher, a fish-eating fowl that creates barely a ripple when it darts into water in search of a meal.
Guests ate guinea fowl and salmon; someone stupid enough to pay £90,000 for a bust of David Cameron's head (like his own, but eternal) was found and applauded, and Peter Stringfellow, the jangly people's pimp, was there.
They are stalking, ambush predators that are primarily piscivores, but will also ambush and eat water fowl and small mammals that may be floating on the surface.
They are opportunistic night predators and are primarily piscivores, but they will also ambush and eat water fowl and small mammals that may be floating on the surface.
Adam Gopnik devotes a chapter to the question of eating fish, flesh and fowl in The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food.
Each time, I played the willing accomplice, daring to eat whichever fish, fowl or furry critter is served up to me by my associates in the name of healthy commerce.
When we read, for instance, that Thomas Farriner, having eaten his "mutton, fowl, woodcock and a venison pasty," then "wiped the blade of his knife and returned it to his pocket," we somehow know that it can only be assumed that he did such a thing, and having to make the assumption somehow jars.
He'll also be donning his wetsuit for a live encounter with predatory pike which have been known to eat small water fowl as well as fish and frogs.
Most of what we ate was domesticated fowl or of the bovine family.
Tuan was certainly infected after helping his father slaughter birds - but his sister only became sick 11 days later and had no contact with the live or slaughtered fowl, other than eating the cooked meat, from which you cannot contract H5N1.
