| Edition |
First Pegasus Books edition. |
| Description |
xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-263) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| Subject |
Chicken industry -- United States -- History.
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Chickens -- United States -- History.
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Cooking (Chicken) -- United States -- History.
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Chickens -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781681771632 |
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1681771632 |
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