Family Farming Fowl 
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2018
And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. This week’s bottle is a blended red wine from La Vieille Ferm (“the old farm”). I really felt like I was sticking my neck out there for a bit – not always a wise decision in France for fowl or royalty. So I survived.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).
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