Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine, if you will, the most glorious festive feast, with an oversize turkey, stuffing two ways, holiday ham, the requisite ...

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...

The Roman banquet may well have been the original staging ground of gastronomic excess — think platters of peacock tongue and fried dormice, chased down with liters of wine poured by naked waiters.