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Article: Are you game? Wisconsin delivers pheasant to presidents
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2009
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The pheasant served at white tablecloth restaurants and President
Barack Obama's inaugural luncheon bears little resemblance to the
game bird that hunters flush out of cornfields and brushy thickets.
A restaurant-bound pheasant is white -- prized because white pin
feathers don't stain the skin on the meat. A wild pheasant is
recognized for its color.
The wild bird also may taste gamy because it may be older and has
to forage for whatever it can find. The restaurant-bound bird is
young and fed a steady diet of corn and soybeans.
If you've never sampled pheasant -- the kind you buy at the store
or a restaurant -- it's a special-occasion dinner for two, perfect
for Valentine's Day, when one ...