John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

Where does chicken come from?

The chicken’s closest wild ancestor is the Red Junglefowl, a bird that lives in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The domesticated chicken’s scientific name, Gallus gallus domesticus, shows how close the birds are in linage — the Red Junglefowl’s name is simply Gallus gallus. Domestication of the chicken dates back to at least 2000 B. …

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Where chicken come from?

Chicken as food History. The modern chicken is a descendant of red junglefowl hybrids along with the grey junglefowl first raised thousands of years ago in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. A few additional items to think about are: edible components, cooking, breeding, health, and marketing and sales. The United States import its …

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Why chicken is killing you?

The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] has admitted that chicken meat is filled with arsenic, a highly poisonous chemical that is four times more toxic than mercury. The substance is given to chickens because it prompts quicker weight gain and less feeding, and it also enhances the pink coloring in raw meat. What happens if …

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Why is chicken soup good for sickness?

Some research suggests chicken soup in particular can help reduce inflammation associated with colds and flu, thus providing some symptom relief. Incidentally, chicken noodle and chicken rice soup were among the top 10 soups ordered in the Zoc, doc/grub, and hub analysis. Peterson noted that soups containing vegetables would also be good options. When you’re …

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What chickens do?

Chickens are omnivores which means their diet includes plants, insects, seeds and even small animals like mice and frogs. Chickens would also likely peck at a carcass as well if they had the chance. Below: Here is one of my white Leghorns looking for food in the natural free range way. Your browser does not …

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