Quail and Fungi Salad

Quail are probably the smallest birds that the British will eat without feeling like ‘baby snatchers’ Of course the Italians eat birds that are much smaller, such as sparrows or thrushes, and although I have tasted the forbidden volatili in my youth, I do actually prefer slightly bigger birds such as quail. We shall leave the consumption of songbirds to a few hunters and gourmets in Lombardy and the Veneto ...