Mrs. Smalls's estimable recipe involves two unusual and effective steps: first, the chicken is salted the night before cooking; second, the chicken is sprinkled with water (rather than the usual milk or buttermilk) before it is dredged in flour.
The chicken is neatly quartered — he says that he aims to have the oyster, that slippery coin of meat on the back of the chicken, cut neatly in two — rubbed with salt and spice, then brined before it is dredged, fried in hot peanut oil and showered with the appropriate level of spice.
"When it's dredging over a shallow sandbar, that's when you break your neck," he often says.
And if there's one thing that Australians who care about politics and also have Twitter love, it's dredging up things that public figures said years ago and dragging them for it.
"I think the pot has been stirred, and that it's dredged up a lot of things that people feel and want to express," she said.
Barbara Kubish, who has lived all her life just north of here near Thompson Island, which is considered the most PCB-polluted spot in the whole river, also thinks the Hudson is cleaning itself, but she says her next door neighbor is just as vociferous in demanding that it be dredged.
4. WAKE UP CALL 0.02 Ooh, a primitive keyboard effect that sounds like it was dredged up from the early 80s - a bit like grime! 0.32 Married with some smooth vocals that make a ham-fisted - sorry, wildly inventive - attempt at marrying soul with the grime "vibe".
Ian Liddell-Grainger, Tory MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset, said of the River Parrett: "Once it's dredged we can then maintain it but the Environment Agency has to stop this mucking around and get on with it".
The select committee report concluded the bar would return through re-silting if it were dredged, and there were insufficient resources to prevent it.
Yardbird's signature item is its chicken sandwich ($7.50,) a boneless, skinless piece of thigh meat that's marinated in white miso paste, buttermilk and rosemary for 48 hours before it's dredged in flour and fried.
