crapaudine वाक्य

Religious dietary laws once prohibited meat on fast days, but allowed frog's meat, as it was a water dweller . " Pigeons ?la crapaudine " played with that convention, and is still part of French traditional cuisine.
In 18th century France, " pigeons ?la crapaudine " ( " toad-like squab " ) was a popular " dish of skill " for both rich and poor, in which the squab was arranged so that it looked like a frog, with the breast forming the frog's " face ".
The ingredients are a bit unsystematically combined, but they are there in all their strangeness : the birth of the French " gastronomer " ( the first of whom, in the early decades of the 19th century, thought it was far more rewarding to concentrate on " the stupidest goose, than the sweetest woman, " ); the impenetrable menus, ( what, Spang wonders, is " pigeon a la crapaudine " given that " crapaud " is a toad and " rapaudine " a disease of sheep ? ); the private " cabinets " in 19th-century Parisian restaurants ( in which affairs and assignations were consummated before or after the consomme ).