Tastes like chicken, a history of America's favorite bird, Emelyn Rude
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Tastes like chicken, a history of America's favorite bird, Emelyn Rude
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-263) and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Tastes like chicken
Nature of contents
bibliography
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923794443
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Emelyn Rude
Sub title
a history of America's favorite bird
Summary
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?
Table of contents
A fowl introduction -- The early bird -- A healing broth -- The general chicken merchants -- Of chicken and champagne -- The poor man's chicken -- America's egg basket -- Calories and constituents -- The kosher chicken wars -- Celia Steele's modest endeavor -- They saw in hens a way -- A chicken for every grill -- A nugget worth more than gold -- The tale of the colonel and the general -- The modern chicken -- the end and the beginning
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