554. Piccione in Gratella

Grilled Squab

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

Method

Squab meat is very nutritious on account of the large amount of fibrin and albumin it contains; it is prescribed for people who are weak because of illness or any other reason. To prepare himself for a love joust, the old man Nicomaco in Machiavelli’s comedy Clizia planned to eat a “uno pippione grosso, arrosto così verdemezzo che sanguigni un poco”