Anybody cooks swan ?

Zero

Hmmmm...yeah, ginger might be a good idea on a gamy bird.

quartodeciman

zooby: There is an opera in which a giant swan comes onstage

'Tis Lohengrin of Richard Wagner, and here begins the knight's swan song:

"My dear swan! Ah, This last sad jorney!" --->
http://www.rwagner.net/midi/lohengrin/e-ml54.html

King Ludwig II of Bavaria was a big Wagner fan.

Schloss Neuschwanstein - Swan's Corner --->
http://www.marerico.com/ludwigIIpict...tting_room.jpg

zoobyshoe

Great links. And is that, then, the origin of the term "Swan Song"?

quartodeciman

I reckon so.

It wasn't invented by Led Zeppelin.