Memphis Quail and Vegetable Stew

When I was growing up in North Carolina, going quail hunting on Saturday mornings was almost a rite of passage, and a certain guarantee of roasted or fried birds or a rich stew that same evening. Of course, in some areas of the South, quail are generally called bobwhites (a name supposedly derived from the sound the birds make), while in others the term is partridge, despite the fact that America has no true partridge like that found in Europe. About the only person I know who