Unthinkable? No better dinner than ragout of cat

To Henry Labouchère, the siege of Paris was a time to destroy illusions, including the prejudice against eating many animals Eating horse meat raises delicate issues. Yet Henry Labouchère's 1871 diaries of the siege of Paris make today's concerns seem unduly sensitive. "I dine habitually at a bouillon; there horse-flesh is eaten in the place of beef, and cat is called rabbit. Both, however, are excellent, and the former is a little sweeter than beef, but in other respects much like it; the lat...