History On Your Plate - Fried Chicken
“Our parents had decided to put an end to their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother. A porter had been charged with our welfare — he got off the train the next day in Arizona — and our tickets were pinned to my brother’s inside coat pocket. I don’t remember much of the trip, but after we reached the segregated southern part of the journey, things must have looked up. Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for “the poor little motherless darlings" and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad." - Maya Angelou(I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) Yard Bird Every chicken on Earth is the descendant of the red jungle fowl found in South Asia. The chicken is not just a bird that provides us with meat and eggs. It has played more roles across human history than any other animal. In ancient Babylon (now Iraq), seals were used by people to identify themselves. Some of t...