Word: chickening
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Cornell has an agricultural school and one of its charges usually finds its way into Lynah for the Cornell-Harvard showdown. Between the second and third periods, a chicken is tied to the Harvard goalpost. The crowd loves...
...project used a chicken in an investigation of the process involved in making a statement in sculpture. Students were asked to witness the entire process which delivers a chicken from the poultry farm to the table. By so doing, they put themselves in a situation which made them more aware of their own place in the life cycle...
...focussing on the essential elements of life and earth, these students broke through the buffers erected by our industrial and commercial society. Most of us, for example, have a limited sense of a pre-packaged commodity like a chicken as a living creature. The project questioned why we do not feel guilty while looking at chickens in the supermarket or while eating them...
...pleased by Gene Hovis's Uptown Down Home Cookbook (Little, Brown; 235 pages; $17.95). This culinary memoir is built around the foods of the author's North Carolina childhood, but it also encompasses recipes that Hovis developed in a career as a New York City food stylist and caterer -- chicken breasts in orange-cognac sauce, or a watercress, cucumber and avocado soup...
...Honey from a Weed (Harper & Row; 374 pages; $25) is a rich and idiosyncratic ramble through those festivals and harvests, and it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. There are detailed recipes for such local delicacies as grapes in syrup from Greece and an Italian fried chicken in walnut sauce. There are tantalizing myths about ingredients and observations about subjects like the olive field: "Like the pains of child-birth, one quickly forgets the olive-picking pains." Forced to work with primitive utensils and sparse ingredients, Gray notes that "good cooking is the result of a balance...