That is a great idea for a cookbook-- I know that after making that turduckenenail last Thanksgiving I knew approximately 124521 times as much about bird anatomy as I had beforehand, and also knew that I do not particularly like spending five hours elbow-deep in fowl.

Re: Sweeney: did you ever read Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris? Horrible clunky prose but a fascinating portrait of an old-world monster becoming absolutely irrelevant because of the onrush of the Paris Commune and modernity, but also making itself into an inextricable part of them.