Mallard & cabbage

This is one of my favourite dishes. I received a few inflamed letters for parading it on television but not in the accompanying book What to Eat Now; it had been jammed into the series at the last minute, when the fine Italian paper was already rushing through the spinning printers. Well, here it is now. I’m happy to see that mallards are appearing more commonly in good butchers and some more adventurous supermarket branches. During the shooting seaso