Food Trend Alert: Bird Funeral on a Plate
LatestIt would be not entirely incorrect to say that in 2018 blindfolded bird stuff was a thing. In April, the TV show Billions gave us a glimpse of what it’s like to eat an ortolan, a bird so rare, and so illegal, that rich people apparently consume in with a napkin over their head so that God will not witness the sin of their indulgence. A few months later, we were treated to the exact same scenario played out on HBO’s Succession. Then, in December, there was Bird Box, a film I have not seen that is strongly associated with birds and blindfolding oneself—and, now, hospitalization.
If a recent Eater article is to be believed, the trend is reversing: 2019 will be the year of seeing the bird. All of it. Like the dead birds one finds fallen to ruin upon city sidewalks, but on your plate, maybe with feathers, maybe not. The point is to evoke the bird as it was in life, which makes it seem all the more dead.