The matriarch of one of the country's greatest poultry dynasties naturally creates the ultimate chicken cookbook. From holiday recipes to everyday quick meals, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a chicken preparation not covered here -- includes side dishes.

Want to know a high stress situation? Try being a food writer and cookbook author, and then marry Frank Perdue. You come home from the honeymoon, everything has been wonderful and then...it's time to Cook the First Meal! Frank wants to eat chicken and you're supposed to be a good cook. I remember that afternoon so vividly. I knew he'd be coming home around six and that he'd be hungry. Now up until that day, I had always felt fairly confident in the kitchen. After all, I love cooking and trying new recipes is my favorite pastime. But cooking chicken for Frank Perdue? I began to get stage fright. As I was trying to find where the pots and pans were in his kitchen, I started calculating that there were probably few people in the world who've eaten chicken more times than my husband. "He's been eating chicken almost daily for his entire life" I thought, "he likes it, he cares about it, and my cooking is about to be judged by a world class expert." As I rummaged around looking for the right herbs and spices$and couldn't find the ones I liked $ my stage fright grew worse. "This man must be one of the world's greatest experts on cooked chicken," I thought to myself. "He's attended dozens and dozens of chicken cooking contests, he's been part of hundreds and hundreds of taste testings for Perdue products. Everywhere he goes, people know he likes chicken and the best chefs and hostesses in the world have served it to him." In my mind I ran through some of the times when together we'd driven an hour out of the way to go to a restaurant that cooked chicken particularly well, and how he always seemed to have lists of the restaurants he wanted to visit.

ou'll be cooking with all four burners and living a life well-done once you learn Mitzi Perdue's Recipes for Success! You're invited to dish-up a heaping serving of wit and wisdom from the best-selling author and speaker Mitzi Perdue as she treats you to the "secret" recipes and integral ingredients. Mrs. Perdue will show you how Mark went from being penniless to being bankrupt to becoming the man he is today. So get ready to dig in because the soup's on and you're the guest of honor.

U'll be cooking with all four burners and living a life well-done once you learn Mitzi Perdue's Recipes for Success! You're invited to dish-up a heaping serving of wit and wisdom from the best-selling author and speaker Mitzi Perdue as she treats you to the "secret" recipes and integral ingredients. Mrs. Perdue will show you how Mark went from being penniless to being bankrupt to becoming the man he is today. So get ready to dig in because the soup's on and you're the guest of honor.

U'll be cooking with all four burners and living a life well-done once you learn Mitzi Perdue's Recipes for Success! You're invited to dish-up a heaping serving of wit and wisdom from the best-selling author and speaker Mitzi Perdue as she treats you to the "secret" recipes and integral ingredients. Mrs. Perdue will show you how Mark went from being penniless to being bankrupt to becoming the man he is today. So get ready to dig in because the soup's on and you're the guest of honor.

From the domestication of the bird nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat, the history of this seemingly commonplace bird is anything but ordinary. How did chicken achieve the culinary ubiquity it enjoys today? It’s hard to imagine, but there was a point in history, not terribly long ago, that individual people each consumed less than ten pounds of chicken per year. Today, those numbers are strikingly different: we consumer nearly twenty-five times as much chicken as our great-grandparents did. Collectively, Americans devour 73.1 million pounds of chicken in a day, close to 8.6 billion birds per year. How did chicken rise from near-invisibility to being in seemingly "every pot," as per Herbert Hoover's famous promise? Emelyn Rude explores this fascinating phenomenon in Tastes Like Chicken. With meticulous research, Rude details the ascendancy of chicken from its humble origins to its centrality on grocery store shelves and in restaurants and kitchens. Along the way, she reveals startling key points in its history, such as the moment it was first stuffed and roasted by the Romans, how the ancients’ obsession with cockfighting helped the animal reach Western Europe, and how slavery contributed to the ubiquity of fried chicken today. In the spirit of Mark Kurlansky’s Cod and Bee Wilson's Consider the Fork, Tastes Like Chicken is a fascinating, clever, and surprising discourse on one of America’s favorite foods.