Chicken: 150 Great Recipes for All Seasons

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Summary: great ideas
Review: I love this cookbook! Not just your ordinary chicken dishes, but not unapproachable haute cuisine either. The author puts together the most wonderful combinations using fresh seasonal ingredients. She also includes tidbits of information that make reading the book a pleasure. I have had to alter a couple of the recipes slightly, but the book is highly recommended.

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Summary: I like Chicken
Review: The arrangement of "Chicken" into a season-oriented structure is one of the best things about this cookbook, as it provides ideas and general meal plans for year-round eating. It also provides good, solid information about buying, cooking and serving your bird. The recipes are above and beyond your average broiled chicken breasts or basic fried chicken--not that there's anything wrong with either of those dishes!--but they're not so freakishly exotic that the everyday cook is going to throw up her or his hands in frustration over confusing instructions or weird ingredients (except maybe the one with the rose petals and mint jelly which is, in fact, very worth the effort of carefully rinsing each petal by hand). I very rarely eat red meat or pork and recently developed an allergy to seafood, so chicken is pretty much my main source of protein anymore. This book has been very useful for interesting recipes that keep my diet from falling into a rut, and the little tidbits of chicken lore are entertaining.