Chicken: 150 Great Recipes for All Seasons

By Elaine Corn

About one out of four Americans will have chicken for dinner tonight. In the US and around the world, chicken is a perennial favoritewouldnt it be nice to find more and better ways to prepare it? In Chicken: 150 Recipes for All Seasons , award-winning cookbook author Elaine Corn offers delicious recipes for this lean and versatile bird throughout the year. Highlighting each seasons fresh ingredients, she presents a cornucopia of delightfully fresh and creative recipes for when peas are bursting from the pods in springtime, when tomatoes are ripe and succulent in the summer, and when the root vegetables of winter are flavorful and abundant. January to December, this year-round cookbook will inspire day after day of irresistible chicken dishes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811817725
• ISBN13: 9780811817721
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

I like Chicken

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.

great ideas

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.