92. Pasta alla Cacciatora

This is the Tuscan name for a dish of pasta—“nocette” (little nuts), “paternostri” (rosary beads), “penne” and so forth—served with a sauce of teal meat. Teals are marsh birds, with webbed feet, spoonbills, and very similar to ducks but much smaller. In the wild they weigh from 250 to 300 grams (about ½ a pound). Two teals should suffice to make a sauce for 400 grams (about 14 ounces) of pasta, or enough to feed four people.