'Hangi actually refers to the method of cooking in the ground with hot stones, or to the underground oven so created, and to the food so cooked.' - About.com
Hey, thanks--another bird wird! This was apparently a bird that nested at Filfla (Malta) but nowhere else (that anyone knows about). I don't think it exists anymore. :-(
"'Will you look at that bird, almost directly ahead, at some thirty-five degrees of elevation? I believe it to be a hangi. They are said to be peculiar to this island.'" --Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 69
...yes. Do you like O'Brian, Jrome?
Patrick O'Brian!
'Hangi actually refers to the method of cooking in the ground with hot stones, or to the underground oven so created, and to the food so cooked.'
- About.com
Hangi is a tradition of New Zealand Maori.
Hey, thanks--another bird wird! This was apparently a bird that nested at Filfla (Malta) but nowhere else (that anyone knows about). I don't think it exists anymore. :-(
"'Will you look at that bird, almost directly ahead, at some thirty-five degrees of elevation? I believe it to be a hangi. They are said to be peculiar to this island.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 69