Sunday, January the 6th, 2008
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Plovers eat the wind.
Turtle-doves eat juniper seeds and sweet-smelling herbs.
Larks eat only pebbles and sand.
From Le Ménagier De Paris (1393), cited in the Oddities section of the excellent Medieval Cookery website.
NOTE : Though let us not forget that, as Christopher Smart reminds us in Jubilate Agno, “For mustard is the proper food of birds”.