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Quintas das Arcas: Bicudo Vinho Verde (2017)

10,000 Birds

Tolkien’s The Hobbit , the cantankerous Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco ) Old Brown from the Peter Rabbit tales by Beatrix Potter, and Kehaar, a Black-headed Gull ( Chroicocephalus ridibundus ) who was one of the few non-leporine characters in Watership Down by Richard Adams. I remember the talking (Song?)

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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

Critter News

Throughout the entire show, the judges and contestants always refer to their meats as the "protein." The main challenge involves frog legs, rabbits, live lobsters (still moving) and other animals. Tags: exotic meats meat cooking. It just irritates the hell out of me. It's as though there is no other protein around.

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