Udaipur, India

" These peacock mosaics are reknown for their detail. Even the feathers are individually cut slivers of glass!"

In our eversearching quest for all things Peacock, we found this mosaic from India, where they love Peacocks as much as we do!

Check this out, from Wikipedia: quote/

Indian Peacock and humans

In the Middle Ages, the flesh of the Indian Peafowl was highly prestigious and believed to be imperishable. Thanks to its reputation of being immortal it was also a symbol of the Catholic church. Though its meat is tough and not well-suited for consumption, it was prized due to being a luxury and often domesticated for human consumption by the medieval nobility and was often served at banquets as a subtlety. This was usually done by skinning the bird, cooking, grinding up and seasoning the flesh, and then redressing it in its own plumage and serving it in a lifelike pose by bracing it with wooden struts. It was also common to discard the meat and stuff the colorful plumage with the meat of tastier domestic fowl such as goose or chicken to please and entertain diners. /quote

....amazing! I guess they are a bit like turkeys, so they must be quite edible. Personally, I will pass this time.