Rabbit Stew with Preserved Pears with Ginger

This combination of mustard-flavored rabbit stew and gingered pears is most unusual and exciting to the palate. Though wild rabbits are particularly flavorful, this recipe will work very well with the farm-bred variety. I believe that rabbits, like duck, work best when cut up into parts then used in different ways. The front part of this animal has little meat, while the saddle and hind legs are abundantly meaty. When I buy frozen rabbit, I use only the meaty pieces for this dish, saving th