I was just reading about pintades on Widipédia. France is apparently Europe's biggest producer of Guineafowl (as Wikipedia spells the word). It might be the world's biggest commercial producer of pintades. I was interested to see that there's no mention of the food qualities of pintades in French Wikipédia. But here's is a paragraph on English-language Wikipedia about the characteristics of Guineafowl meat that reads:
Guineafowl meat is moist, firmer and leaner than chicken meat and has a slight gamey flavour. It has marginally more protein than chicken or turkey, roughly half the fat of chicken and slightly less food energy per gram. Their eggs are substantially richer than those of chickens.
Very nice photo of that plate of food, Ken. Yumm! I am curious what the pintade tastes like, but I'll probably never know. I know that you like dark meat... does Walt like the white meat of the pintade?
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I've ever seen pintade on a menu la bas. Interesting about the eggs - so those must taste different as well.
ReplyDeleteI am curious why Pintades have not been grown in the USA? I think I will look forward to trying them when I am in France.
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