Full subtitle: "The epic begins 10,000 years ago in an Asian jungle and ends today in kitchens all over the world".
Chicken reigns in the 21st century. [illus. by Tim O'Brien]
Posted on 06/18/2012 7:06:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on his way to confront the invading Persian forces, stopped to watch two cocks fighting and summoned his troops, saying: "Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other." The tale does not describe what happened to the loser, nor explain why the soldiers found this display of instinctive aggression inspirational rather than pointless and depressing. But history records that the Greeks, thus heartened, went on to repel the invaders, preserving the civilization that today honors those same creatures by breading, frying and dipping them into one's choice of sauce...
Chicken is the ubiquitous food of our era, crossing multiple cultural boundaries with ease. With its mild taste and uniform texture, chicken presents an intriguingly blank canvas for the flavor palette of almost any cuisine. A generation of Britons is coming of age in the belief that chicken tikka masala is the national dish, and the same thing is happening in China with Kentucky Fried Chicken. Long after the time when most families had a few hens running around the yard that could be grabbed and turned into dinner, chicken remains a nostalgic, evocative dish for most Americans. When author Jack Canfield was looking for a metaphor for psychological comfort, he didn't call it "Clam Chowder for the Soul."
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
Chicken reigns in the 21st century. [illus. by Tim O'Brien]
Still no word on which came first, apparently...
Skevos did well when he decided to stew that old bird up.
Plus, they could always sell a chicken for cash money as the need arose.
When I was quite young I bought a bantum rooster and his brown hen from a gypsy in the community. He could fight like nobody's business.
Just don’t try pan frying old roosters.
My father’s father used to lock all his animals in the barn when they heard the gypsies were in the area in MN. My dad remembers the commotion when he was a little boy. The animals would disappear if they weren’t locked up. (At least, that is what my father said). It was during the Great Depression and Dad said no one stole or went hungry out on the farms. Then, he amended the statement-—and said there was stealing, but only if the gypsies were traveling through.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. Gypsies didn’t believe in private property rights.
Tastes like chicken.
its whats for dinner. I remember back to when I got to go and catch a chicken and place it in the funnel....then bleed it out and pluck it with grandma. Yummy! Then it was off the fetch some squirrels and maybe some dove and it wasnt long before we had dinner. Rabbit was excellent when grandma deep fried it as well. Something about lard and butter that made everything she made, better.
With the arrival of WWII most Roma in America went to California and other West Coast locations to do light metal work ~ mostly in the aircraft industry.
They've subsequently lost their 'culture'. Nothing like regular, steady employment to put an end to life on the road.
There's an entirely different group ~ the Travelers ~ who are not Roma. They are not ethnically the same, but a handful of Roma did enter UK at about the same time the Enclosure laws were putting tens of thousands of Irish and Scottish tenant farmers on the road.
Those Roma quickly expanded their reach into UK society and pocketbooks by "hiring on" native Irish and Scottish people.
Those are the folks your father feared in Minnesota.
Lard makes anything better.
Thanks!
Interesting article.
Click on the photo at the link for the full picture.
The travelers where Irish
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Sure they did. It is just they only believed in Gypsy property rights.
It is a rather common view point.
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