Pride of place was the recipe for Mum's roast tandoori Christmas chicken, written in her handwriting.
But voice can be comical, too — try reading the wry reporting of Mary Roach: "The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken," she writes in the first line of "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," adding, "I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan".
The investigator said his co-workers tore the head off a chicken to write graffiti, strangled a chicken with a latex glove, squeezed birds till they exploded and committed "hundreds" of other acts of cruelty.
"We are familiar with chefs adding spice to enhance the taste of chicken, but corrupt poultry impresarios have less conventionally applied turmeric to touch up the feathers on certain females and have mixed saffron in oil to pigment the ungainly pale appendages of certain yellow-legged chickens," he writes.
The pair met when Rabensteine was cast in a play, "The Chicken Snake," written by one of Schulz's friends.
"There is nothing like roast chicken," Laurie Colwin wrote in "More Home Cooking," her second collection of chatty food essays.
"The one big thing I remember about Christmases then is that it was the only time of the year that we ate a chicken," he wrote in his autobiography, Under No Illusion (2000).
"I can't understand why you would not be proud, but for those who are a little chicken just write down 'Trump' in the secret ballot and play your part in making America great again.
Food blogger Lagusta Yearwood, commenting on the student who recently discovered a "brain" in his Kentucky Fried Chicken meal, wrote on Comment is free: "We continually draw distinctions between what's dinner and what's trash, who our pets are and who our meals are.
That's because North Korean experts "tune in outside radio and television, read outside books and newspapers detailing our politics and society," while, "To learn about them, we pick through chicken entrails," he writes.
