Where can I find a heritage turkey in the Cleveland area? I’m looking for any heritage breed. Fresh. I’m willing to drive up to one hour each way. If it can be shipped overnight to arrive fresh on the 24th...

explanation of the type of chicken he needed to make a proper stock, “walking around and scratching, older and tougher after laying many eggs, old country breeds.” He said that supermarket chickens fall apart after three hours in...

I second supporting your local farmers. I am lucky enough to live in a farming community, where if you look you can find people that will raise you a free range heritage breed turkey, or chickens, or sell you fresh eggs. It takes...

a bit intimidating). In one fenced-in area (too big to call a cage), there were guinea hen, turkeys, chickens, roosters and quail. In another there were rabbits, and in another, geese and ducks. The farthest pen from the main...

This is a confusing area. The way I understand it, Cornish hens or Cornish chickens are a particular breed of chicken (Gallus gallus) with short legs and broad breasts. Most common broilers and fryers are hybrids of this breed...

they presumably say it is? I buy my chickens almost exclusively from Springfield Farm and the quality and flavor of the chicken is head and shoulders above commercial. Heritage breeds, free-range (heck, you can visit the farm and...

Getting back to selection, are there certain breeds that are desirable? Also, any insight on how these chickens are raised ... what they eat ... living conditions. My understanding is that the Chinatown chickens ... at least in...

Pastured eggs come from hens which are allowed to roam in the field and eat grass and worms rather rhan be fed organic feed. They are reported to have less fat, less cholesterol, and more vitamins and more omega-3 fatty acids...

Heritage turkeys are the ancestors of the broad-breasted white turkeys that are the ubiquitous breed these days. As the name implies, the broad-breasted whites were bred because they get big breasts in a short amount of time. But...

. Meanwhile, I have no idea what a brown chicken is, and whether it’s suitable for simmering vs. roasting vs. frying. Can anybody tell me more about the “Brown Chicken” offering from Wings? For instance, does it...

inspiring. I ordered a main entree knowing full well I would be bringing it home for lunch. In this case, Sonoma game hen with collard greens and mushrooms. I’m sorry I didn’t jot down the mushroom breed as it was a...

, but it’s probably more likely that it’s a genetic feature you can breed for, or more typical to certain hen varieties. I’m hoping that it is not, as someone else suggested, a side effect of fertility drugs!

cornish game hen

at lunchtime, if that matters, but now we’re talkin' about a different breed of bird ;-).

If you got “true” she-crab soup, with the crab eggs in the soup, the restaurant was breaking a number of federal and state laws. It has been illegal for some years now to take gravid female crabs – the...