[LMB] AKICOT:L Bambi in Spanish & Italian

[CatMtn at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/13/2006 6:11:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mtraber251 at earthlink.net writes:

CatMtn at aol.com wrote:

> I have occasionally wondered about  chicken cacciatore--does that mean the  
> hunters were hunting  chickens?  Their own, or somebody else's?  Or did  
they  
> take chicken along to eat in case they didn't kill  anything?
>  
> Mary

The name means Chicken cooked  hunter style, just like poulet bonne femme 
is chicken cooked 'homestyle'  or 'housewife style' and pasta puttanesca 
doesnt mean it has women of  negotiable virtue *in* the sause, it is made 
in the style that a woman of  negotiable virtue might cook something.

Basically it means that hunter  style foods may be cooked with stuff that 
the hunters found out in the  woods, onions, mushrooms and herbs  
predominate.



M:
 
Living in the rural south as I do, I find the idea of the hunters creeping  
up on their neighbors' chicken yards much more entertaining. <g>
 
Mary