figpeckers

In later life he regretted his native province chiefly for its figpeckers, superior in his opinion to ortolans or robins, and for the cuisine of the innkeeper Genin, where "the old-timers of Belley used to gather to eat chestnuts and drink the new white wine known as _vin bourru_"

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

But what about Cephalonian hare (marinated in lemon juice, then stewed in red wine and garlic) or figpeckers in their nests (small birds roasted on large red mushrooms)?

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