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单词 beccafico
释义

beccafico

/ˌbekəˈfēkō /
noun (plural beccaficos)
A European songbird, especially a warbler, eaten as a delicacy.The dish is named for the beccafico, a bird that eats ripe figs and is therefore considered a gourmand....
  • In the 15th and 16th centuries, Venetian literature mentions the beccaficos, literally translated as the fig-pecker.
  • The birds must be taken alive; once captured they are either blinded or kept in a lightless box for a month to gorge on millet, grapes, and figs, a technique apparently taken from the decadent cooks of Imperial Rome who called the birds beccafico, or ‘fig-pecker’.

Origin

Italian.

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