An Explanation of Civet In Both Its' Senses

An Explanation of Civet In Both Its' Senses

If you're cooking and you've got your game on then you might just be making a civet—a French stew of furry game or fowl, the famous  “jugged hare” in English. Typically civet is a winter dish made with hare or rabbit and flavored with onion, chives, garlic, red wine, and peppercorns; traditionally the hare swims in a distinctive dark brown broth, thickened with the little critter’s blood. 

Heaven in a demi-tasse

Heaven in a demi-tasse

There’s an office building in Paris which belongs to one of the less important security branches of the labyrinthine French intelligence empire. On a frigid January morning twenty years ago, I rode the century-old elevator to the third floor; I was the guest of a mid-ranking French diplomat I’d met on assignment in Cuba: I’d helped him with one or two delicate enquiries regarding the equally labyrinthine Cuban foreign ministry.

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