Two years ago, my dear friend Molly asked me what topic I’d choose to write about if I were to write a book. “I don’t know, probably something about presidents and birds,” I said. I had been on a big presidential biographies kick and was also several years into a fixation on birds that was…
Month: February 2024
Eating King Can
“So well and so widely known that its very name has passed into an epicurean proverb, the canvasback needs no introduction.” These words were doubtlessly true when they were written in 1901. But today, unless you are an avid hunter, birder, or historian of 19th-century American dining, I would guess that you do, in fact,…