Want a Rock? Get Your Chicken On

Fox News ^ | 5/13/05 | Jennifer D'Angelo

[pissant]

Grandma was right — the way to a man's heart really is through his stomach.

Or so it would seem, based on the romantic powers of a recipe that appeared in Glamour magazine (search).

In its January 2004 issue, Glamour printed instructions on how to make Engagement Chicken (search), a dish that at the time had inspired the boyfriends of three women to pop the question.

Since then — in a case of what came first, the chicken or the ring? — the magazine has received 21 letters (and counting) from women who say this simple meal was the magic trick that got them a rock.

“I made Engagement Chicken for my live-in boyfriend and less than two months later, I’m wearing a wedding band. This chicken is serious stuff. But please keep me anonymous — my husband doesn’t know he was reeled in by a chicken!” a Woburn, Mass., woman wrote to Glamour recently.

The dish consists of one whole chicken, two medium lemons, fresh lemon juice, kosher or sea salt and ground black pepper (click here for the recipe and the history of how Engagement Chicken came to be).

Not surprisingly, it tastes like ... chicken. But when it comes out of the oven — and presumably set on a table between romantic candles — it looks very festive and fancy indeed, kind of like something Martha Stewart (search) would prepare.

But why would chicken — a dish not even remotely known for its aphrodisiac powers — get a man to propose marriage?

Jon Suder, the first man to fall for the chicken 22 years ago, said the well-dressed bird put marriage on his mind because it seemed like a wifely concoction.

[trisham]

Best not to demonstrate the inability to boil an egg! ;o)

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When people ask my husband why he does all the cooking, he says:

"Because I want to live!"

We've been married twenty-one years. :)

[pissant]

lol. I'm sure you aren't complaining. Just hang out in the kitchen in your lingerie!