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The Spectacular Culinary Journey of Tasting History's One-Year Anniversary Dish: Cockentrice

As Tasting History celebrates its first anniversary, the show dives into one of its most eccentric and captivating recipes: the cockentrice. This dish, a half pig and half bird creation, is a true spectacle of culinary history, prominently featured in banquets of medieval and Tudor England. Although initially deemed by the host as a somewhat extravagant endeavor, the intrigue around the historical recipe led to the decision to recreate this mythical character at a pivotal moment of celebration.