We Cooked A Peacock

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.6	Three quick things before we start the show.
0:09.1	One, the shows are rerun at originally aired in 2016.
0:13.2	Two, it includes sounds of cooking and eating.
0:16.6	Apparently some people don't like the sound of eating, so that's a warning.
0:20.1	And three, the show was recorded in stereo, which means if you have headphones, you might
0:25.1	want to put them on.
0:26.1	Make the show more fun to listen to.
0:37.8	Hi, is this the exotic meat market in California?
0:40.4	My name is David Kestinbaum.
0:41.9	I'm a reporter with National Public Radio.
0:44.8	I work for a team that covers economics and for the holidays, we want to cook this very,
0:50.2	very, very old recipe from the spice trade days.
0:53.8	Okay.
0:54.8	It's from the 1600s.
0:56.8	1600s?
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.8	What kind of meat?
0:59.8	It calls for peacock.
1:00.8	Oh, yeah, beautiful.
1:01.8	Do you have peacocks there?
1:03.8	Yeah, I do.
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