Chefs Fight For Songbird Language Analysis

The articles “Chefs Fight for Songbird” from the New York Times, “Cyprus jobless turn to illegal songbird trapping” from USA Today, and the book Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain, are all about types of birds that are illegal to hunt. The differences between the four pieces come when the portrayal of those who want to keep hunting the birds is in play. On one side are the French, who wish to continue the trapping of the ortolan; an extravagant and traditional delicacy. On the other side are the Cypriots, whose financial struggles lead them to hunt down migrating songbirds in order to make a living. Essentially, because of the high status of French cuisine, some of the articles and the book display a sympathy towards the ortolan hunters, while the Cypriots are seen as criminal in a different article. What the authors of these literary pieces choose to include in their writing and the way they write emphasize the bias for French cuisine.
In the New York Times “Chefs Fight for Songbird” article, the chefs who are featured are clearly not on the side of the bird activists. These chefs, “…Mr. Guerard and three other celebrity chefs who hail from southwest France—Alain Ducasse, Jean Coussau, Alain Dutournier—are trying to engineer a public
Again, because French cuisine is held to such a high standard, people such as Anthony Bourdain and those like him will always come in support of whatever traditions that French food has. Even if those traditions include the killing of thousands of birds and the possible inhumane treatment of them. Many people do not know about Cypriot cuisine. So, even though essentially the same act of hunting songbirds for food an tradition are done by both the Cypriots and the French, the Cypriots will be looked down upon. Biases such as this exist in all manners of life. This culinary based bias is just one of