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...broth but in zhou, or congee, a watery rice porridge. The list of what you can simmer in it is worthy of Noah's Ark. Try the wild mountain chicken, which is not, in this case, a euphemism for frog (though that is available) but an actual fowl. The trick with the chicken is to cook the pieces of white meat very quickly - or you'll be chewing on pieces of rope, this being a scrawny bird - and let the rest simmer for 30 minutes or so until tender. This process also alchemizes the zhou into a rich, soothing potage...
Regardless, keeping a coop and raising fowl are illegal activities in Cambridge, Hamilton alleged, and for that reason, she called an inspector to her neighbors’ home...
Fastman, his wife Allison J. Fastman, and their housemate Blake R. Brasher—all co-owners of the birds—were issued a citation stating the illegality of owning a duck or chicken coop and growing livestock or fowl in Cambridge...
Before undertaking their fowl-raising project, the Fastmans and Brasher had researched Cambridge ordinances, and they noted the absence of “chicken coop” on the list of permitted uses—along with items like doghouses and bird feeders that can be easily found in many backyards, Fastman said. Finding no documented regulations against having chickens and ducks as pets in a backyard when they researched the city ordinances, the trio proceeded to build the coop and keep the birds by what they understood to be legal means...
...appeal of the Times' approach is that while it doesn't cut the paper off completely to all those ad-revenue-generating eyeballs, it also doesn't continue to give away the store for free. The downside is that it's neither fish nor fowl: people who might pay for the paper are still going to try to get it for free if there's a way to do so. At the same time, the pay plan will limit the website's traffic - at 17 million monthly readers, it's the biggest of the newspaper websites - and therefore...