Some Types of Food Lucia's Family Ate... by Mia Lowry

Lucia during a phone conversation relayed the following to me. She told me how when she was a little girl they would oftentimes eat baby pigeons for dinner. There was lady from her church who had a son that raised them. Whenever they would go and visit the mother of this young man would ask him to give her some of them. He would protest to them having some because he knew they would kill them to eat. Sometimes he would relent to his mother's plea and give them the baby birds and other times his mother would give them some birds when he was out.

Lucia's brother, John, would go hunting with a sling shot and get them meat for dinner. Due to their poverty they would eat meat sparingly. However, on a good hunt John would come home with some rabbits or other birds for them to eat. If they had money, Maria would send Lucia to the store to purchase some meat for dinner.

Maria was a good cook, Lucia said she would dress the rabbits and birds to prepare them for dinner.