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By the Editors of Food & Wine Magazine

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Popeye-Inspired Chicken Should Not Affect Hair Growth

BY Justine Sterling | POSTED AUGUST 12, 2011 AT 7:53PM EDT

Chicken Dance spotlights a fantastic Food & Wine chicken recipe every day.

Chicken with Olive, Capers and Roasted Lemons

A British publisher will release The Popeye Cookbook in October—a health-focused tome featuring plenty of spinach and olive oil to celebrate the sailor and his gangly paramour, Olive Oyl. “These recipes are meant to build you up, give you hair on your chest and immediate strength,” the firm’s marketing director told The Guardian this week. As appealing as that sounds, you will not wake up with extra fur after making this healthy recipe for Sautéed Chicken with Olives, Capers and Roasted Lemons, served with baby spinach.

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Bobby Flay Joins the Chicken Dance

BY Alex Vallis | POSTED AUGUST 11, 2011 AT 8:31PM EDT

Chicken Dance spotlights a fantastic Food & Wine chicken recipe every day.

Chef and TV powerhouse Bobby Flay joins spiky-haired, tenderhearted Anne Burrell for the third season of Worst Cooks in America in February, the Food Network announced this week. His no-nonsense criticism should bring the desired competition-series tears, but it’s less embarrassing to learn from his dishes in your own kitchen. Flay’s Honey Mustard Chicken recipe has a sticky, sweet-and-spicy glaze inspired by the Savannah Bee Company’s tupelo honey. Active cooking time is 20 no-pressure minutes, so there’s no reason to get weepy.

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Help Yourself to Some Fried Chicken and Biscuits

BY Alex Vallis | POSTED AUGUST 10, 2011 AT 8:36PM EDT

Chicken Dance spotlights a fantastic Food & Wine chicken recipe every day.

Biscuits might be as Southern as fried chicken, but The Charleston City Paper interviews Southern Biscuits co-author Cynthia Graubart today about the complex relationship many modern cooks have with the homemade version. Techniques like cutting in flour aren’t always self-explanatory. “Even if you said, ‘Take two knives,’ what do you do, tickle yourself under the chin with them? What do you do with those two knives, and how long is it going to take you?” Graubart told the City Paper. Fried chicken is another one of those iconic regional foods, but the preparation is a little more straightforward: season meat, dredge it and fry to crispy deliciousness. This month’s issue features a Classic Southern Fried Chicken recipe inspired by The Help, which opens today to incite a season of Southern-food cravings.

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Chicken Dance Goes Bare

BY Justine Sterling | POSTED AUGUST 9, 2011 AT 8:33PM EDT

Chicken Dance spotlights a fantastic Food & Wine chicken recipe every day.

Aspiring chefs have always had to decide whether to enroll in culinary school or start at the bottom in real restaurant kitchens, a less formal but much cheaper way to learn. Some recent students haven't been happy with the pricier route, according to the L.A. Times: "For-profit schools across the country are facing a flurry of lawsuits claiming fraud; they're accused of misleading students about tuition costs, job placement rates and how much they'll earn after graduating." Opinions may be divided, but both camps emphasize practicing the basics—a great lesson for professional and home cooks. For the September issue's Blank Canvas Chicken, Philadelphia chef Marcie Turney shows you how to upgrade chicken in three easy ways: with Yucatán spice, Indian barbecue sauce, or artichoke and olives.

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Chicken Dance: A Bargain to Stave Off Debt

BY Justine Sterling | POSTED AUGUST 8, 2011 AT 7:20PM EDT

Chicken Dance spotlights a fantastic Food & Wine chicken recipe every day.

Responding to the U.S. credit downgrade and diving stocks, President Obama kept a positive outlook this afternoon by insisting that America’s economic problems are "imminently solvable" and the country can reduce its debt over the long-term. In line with the government’s belt-tightening, today’s chicken dish requires just a handful of ingredients for an inexpensive meal. Combining skewered pieces of chicken breast and a simple herb marinade, the recipe is also healthy and perfect for summer grilling: Tomato-and-Cilantro-Marinated Chicken Shashlik.

Mouthing Off

By the Editors of Food & Wine Magazine

Popeye-Inspired Chicken Should Not Affect Hair Growth

Bobby Flay Joins the Chicken Dance

Help Yourself to Some Fried Chicken and Biscuits

Chicken Dance Goes Bare

Chicken Dance: A Bargain to Stave Off Debt

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