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Tastes like chicken : a history of America's favorite bird
- Title
- Tastes like chicken : a history of America's favorite bird / Emelyn Rude.
- Author
- Rude, Emelyn
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xii, 273 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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?"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "August 2016"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 17-892
- ISBN
- 9781681771632
- 1681771632
- LCCN
- 2017303587
- OCLC
- 923794443
- Author
- Rude, Emelyn, author.
- Title
- Tastes like chicken : a history of America's favorite bird / Emelyn Rude.
- Publisher
- New York : Pegasus Books, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First Pegasus books edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-263) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 17-892