I thought Cornish hens were little chickens, no? When I was a kid, I thought they were gornisht game hens, because gornisht is Yiddish for "nothing." I always preferred normal-sized chickens. But what my family had in commons with yours is that we always preferred chicken to turkey, and after a while, we stopped making a turkey when we hosted Thanksgiving. We also had fantastic duck in Beijing!

Thanks for the links! Your wife's work looks interesting on my phone, but I think I need to look again on my largish external monitor after work today. :-)