There was a real-life Rooster. The discovery was shared in 2012 by Oklahoma author Brett Cogburn, a Western novelist whose only nonfiction book is titled “Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real ...
You may think you've eaten coq au vin. You may have even ordered something by that name in a restaurant... but it probably wasn't actually coq au vin. Because that means, specifically, rooster cooked ...