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pheasant at Boucherie Chevy

Rachel Hope Cleves

A beautiful pheasant we cooked for Toussaint and La Fête des Morts. When I asked the butcher if I could take a photo before he cut off the pheasant’s head, he did his best to make the bird pretty for the photo. Le boucher appears rather dashing in this photo as well.

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Professor of history at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Author of five books. Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (2024). A Second Chance for Yesterday (2023). Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (2020). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014). Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009).

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