Frogs

Around us at Zephyros, kids and silverware clamor and motorbikes cough, but Marina’s voice is barely above a whisper. “When the hippopotamuses quarrel, then the frogs get stepped on,” she says of geopolitical conflicts, including the war in…

Christmas dinners within the UK are all about turkey, goose, nut roasts or veggie Wellingtons. But over the Channel, consumption of frogs’ legs – often sautéed with garlic and lemon juice or fried in breadcrumbs – peaks through the festive…