I'm sure that the late artist James Audubon would agree about immediate drawing of your birds. Not familiar with Romi Perkins-- but I recall many gourmet styled meals prepared by Ed Gray's wife in the early years of GSJ-- both fish and game- all tasty indeed. If you dry pick upland game birds, perhaps bacon is not needed for moist and flavorful cooking-- but IMO, it can't hurt. RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..