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Tastes like chicken: a history of America's favorite bird
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New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
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xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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?

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-263) and index.
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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?
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APA Citation (style guide)

Rude, E. (2016). Tastes like chicken: a history of America's favorite bird. First Pegasus Books edition. New York, Pegasus Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Rude, Emelyn. 2016. Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird. New York, Pegasus Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Rude, Emelyn, Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird. New York, Pegasus Books, 2016.

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Rude, Emelyn. Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird. First Pegasus Books edition. New York, Pegasus Books, 2016.

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