Christmas Feast - Paris 1870

Dec 24, 2005 12:27

During the Siege of Paris in 1870, when Crown Prince Albert of Saxony was laying waste to the city then ruled by Napoléon III, French zookeepers at the Jardin de Plantes zoo were forced by necessity to sell off many of the animals that they could no longer feed. Many resteraunteurs siezed the opportunity to eat something other than rats or ( Read more... )

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djquestion December 24 2005, 20:49:44 UTC
I would think that ass and elephant would be really greasy meats.

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