Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicken power," says Ron Oest, exulting in his chicken house in northern New Mexico. "That's what keeps our winter water supply from freezing. See, they roost right under the tank." Up on the roost, two dozen hens ride out the winter, unwittingly warming a thousand gallons of mountain stream water stored in the black tank that bellies down from the ceiling. It is an efficient use of passive poultry energy, harnessed by a resourceful man who supports his family handsomely on $5,000 a year...
Frank Perdue and Dinah Shore cross drumsticks in the Great Chicken War. -- An elegant new book on Southern cuisine...
...general, these cooked products cost twice as much as comparable cuts of raw chicken, but they are about one-third less expensive than fast-food counterparts. And though there are minor differences in preserving, cooking and packaging techniques, both companies follow roughly the same procedures. Chickens are injected with water (Holly Farms) or broth (Perdue), along with seasonings and such preservatives as dextrose, sodium phosphate, malic or citric acid; many of the Farms products also contain vegetable or coconut oil. Though several samples from both processors were bloody, the meat is generally cooked until well done to kill bacteria...
Overall, the Perdue products, particularly the Cornish hens, seemed somewhat fresher and brighter than the often gray-tinged, overly salty and watery Holly Farms cuts. But neither is a match for the home-cooked product, or even for a chicken fresh off the rotisserie of a neighborhood deli. Asked if the Holly Farms product is as good as her home-roasted chicken, Shore did her best. "Well, I sprinkle mine with herbs, salt, pepper and lemon juice and pop it in the oven, and it's not any better than this," she said with an almost straight face. Almost...
Under the hard-driving Abdic, Agrokomerc grew from a tiny milk-processing plant to a conglomerate with 13,500 employees, 1985 sales of $183 million, and products ranging from chicken parts to frozen dough. The rapid expansion transformed the firm's hometown, Velika Kladusa, from an impoverished peasant village to a prosperous community of whitewashed brick homes. But it turned out that Abdic had financed much of the expansion through a type of fraud that has become common in Yugoslavia's byzantine financial system...