FOREWORD: WE BE THE FREAKS   “There’s a sucker born every minute” –P.T. Barnum   Generally speaking, chickens are a dull topic.  I know this, first hand.  I spent weeks researching facts about chickens on the internet, preparatory to writing a few recipes and essays.  The only information worthy of retaining would amount to about […]

After a week of undertaking exhaustive research of the poultry industry of Thailand, I have arrived at two conclusions.  First, there are a lot of chickens and eggs in Thailand.  Second, I would rather cook and eat chicken and eggs than read about them.   I had already surmised my first conclusion more than twenty […]

  The automobile has always been a symbol of progress, status and prosperity.  That is usually the way it is with anything that is rare and expensive.  It’s difficult to believe, however, that chickens were once held in a similar lofty esteem—at least as a food source.  Equally astounding is that both cars and chickens […]

There ain’t nobody here but us chickens There ain’t nobody here at all You’re stompin’ around And shakin’ the ground, You’re kickin’ up an awful dust –Alex Kramer & Joan Whitney   I live in Waterville, Maine, a small town of about 15,000 people located on the west bank of the Kennebec River.  It is […]