The Food Monologues

My parents wanted me to drive them to the local high street this morning to do some shopping. My dad wanted to buy some more frozen duck from Farm Stores as they were on offer at two for £5.00. However, they had sold out - so there might be another trip next week to search for ducks. They plan to make wind dried duck, which is quite tasty and quite expensive. Wind dried duck is a whole duck that is flattened, and dried with salt and hung in cool air to cure for about a week. Then a portion of dried duck can be cooked in a pot of boiled rice and this gives the rice a fragant duck aroma. The cooked duck is then cut into small pieces and served with the rice. My mum told me how when she was a child, my grandfather who farmed ducks would preserve ducks for the leaner winter months by this method. My dad told me that a family's prosperity was measured in the number of dried ducks and sausages were hanging in the home.