The first people to farm and eat ducks seem to have been the Chinese. It appears they may have "invented" this recipe, which then made its way to Italy. It could thus be described as an "ethnic" recipe, whose diffusion around Italy started from Medicean Florence. In the court of Catherine of the Medici, duck à l'orange was cooked and eaten under the name of "papero alla melarancia". From Florence it first spread throughout Italy and then to France, thanks to Henry II of Valois, husband of De Medici.
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