Tastes like chicken
Subtitle: a history of America's favorite bird
By: Emelyn Rude
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781681771632
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Cooking (Chicken); Chickens; Chicken industry; History
Description: How did chicken achieve the culinary ubiquity it enjoys today? It's hard to imagine, but there was a point in history, not terribly long ago, that individual people each consumed less than ten pounds of chicken per year. Today, those numbers are strikingly different: we consumer nearly twenty-five times as much chicken as our great-grandparents did. Collectively, Americans devour 73.1 million pounds of chicken in a day, close to 8.6 billion birds per year. How did chicken rise from near-invisibility to being in seemingly "every pot," as per Herbert Hoover's famous promise?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: A fowl introduction; title: The early bird; title: A healing broth; title: The general chicken merchants; title: Of chicken and champagne; title: The poor man's chicken; title: America's egg basket; title: Calories and constituents; title: The kosher chicken wars; title: Celia Steele's modest endeavor; title: They saw in hens a way; title: A chicken for every grill; title: A nugget worth more than gold; title: The tale of the colonel and the general; title: The modern chicken; title: the end and the beginning.