Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird

Synopsis

How Did Chicken Achieve The Culinary Ubiquity It Enjoys Today? It's Hard To Imagine, But There Was Once 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: Americans Consume Nearly Ten Times As Much Chicken As Our Great-grandparents Did. Modern Americans Devour 73.1 Million Pounds Of Chicken Every Day. How Did Chicken Rise From Near-invisibility To Being In Seemingly 'every Pot, ' As Per Herbert Hoover's Famous Promise?-- 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. Emelyn Rude. August 2016--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 201-263) And Index.