Last weekend I cooked a chicken using principles from the Zuni method. I bought the smallest Springer Mountain chicken I could find. On Friday I dried and salted the chicken thoroughly, inside and out. It air chilled on a rack in my fridge until Sunday. The skin looked crazy after two days, pretty much translucent. [...]
Chicken again? This horse has been beaten so badly, it should be put down. Only horse slaughter is banned in the USA. Owners now leave their horses to starve, or they send them to Mexico where our friendly neighbors to the South dispatch the horses and sell the meat to Europe and Japan. Way to [...]
Yep, more chicken being cooked over at the EIA homestead. There were a few years after I first read Kitchen Confidential that I rarely ate chicken, and almost never in a restaurant. Bourdain said the single chicken dish on the menu was for the unadventurous who didn’t know what they wanted. I ordered the lamb with pride; I [...]




