Polenta E Oséi (Bergamo)

This dish, which is more or less the “national” dish of both the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, is one of the culinary triumphs of Italy. In Italy, as in France, much more use is made of small birds of every description than in England, the equivalent in this country being what is put on the market as “field fare”—small birds which the farmers are allowed to shoot, as they cause considerable