And when they make their characters eat ortolans, what are showrunners really trying to say? First, perhaps, some facts: The ortolan bunting, Emberiza hortulana, is a songbird native to many ...

Fatty and imbued with a subtle hazelnut flavor, the ortolan bunting is a hundred-year-old ... But that doesn't stop people from catching and eating an estimated 30,000 ortolans every year, selling ...

Pragmatically, the ritual may also have arisen because eating it is a messy business indeed. Or, others might say, out of shame. Because the process of delivering the Ortolan Bunting Emberiza ...

(It's often described as "eating the soul of France.") The snack in question is a small, adorable songbird called the ortolan ...

But, mostly, because diners wish to hide the shame of eating such a beautiful creature ... (In the IUCN’s global assessment, the ortolan bunting receives a less critical threat status.) ...

The customary way of eating ortolan, a delicate songbird ... Killing and selling the bird, a member of the bunting family, has been banned in France since the late 1990s, though the ban was ...

But this bird is currently recognized as endangered in France, where it is hunted. Because ortolan bunting populations are widespread across Europe and apparently stable, many people argue that an ...