![]() Order too many they taste good later as well, if any actually survive their first appearance. The wings come in eight flavors, all of them pretty much over the top, with an outlandish crust, thanks to the kitchen’s taste for coatings like burnt sugar, parmesan and Sriracha. (I prefer with the bone, because it slows down my eating and gives me something gnaw on). You need to move into the Bombz Zone, which begins with the wings, served both with the bone and without. But that’s just a warmup - and it will warm you up. The chicken skin chicharrones stands somewhere between Latino and Jewish - fried chicken skin is a longtime Eastern European favorite it comes with garlic salt for dipping, should you need more.Īnd then, there’s the hot Cheetos mac, which is - yes! - mac ’n’ cheese made using Cheetos instead of macaroni, a touch of culinary genius, for Cheetos have crunch, where mac doesn’t. The elotes is white corn with bacon and a Korean chili aioli mayo - a Mexican-Korean dish that cannot be denied. This is a restaurant of Belly Bombz that will make your belly very happy to have been bombed. (Do remember that fried chicken is best still hot from the oil. Like french fries, we don’t even pretend it’s healthy we just dig in - at remarkable local fried chicken shops like the following. We love our fried chicken not wisely, but far too well. But there’s probably no form of chicken to which we’re more addicted, and about which we’re more opinionated, then fried, and particularly Southern fried, with a sub-species of Nashville hot. Chinese chicken salad, which is far more American than Chinese. Here in the Los Angeles area, thanks to the ethnic mulch in which we toil, we eat chicken in a staggering number of forms: Rotisserie grilled in the styles of Mexico, Peru, Italy, Armenia and more. It gives pleasure beyond all bounds and reason, asking little in return. Chicken isn’t so important in and of itself what’s important about chicken is what’s done to it, and with it. Like some sort of edible toy, it offers a good deal in way of diversions - there are bones to explore, parts to consider, crispness to appreciate. It reassures with its pleasant blandness. And well it should be - chicken is, along with the potato, one of the great comfort foods of the known world. The bottom line is that as a result of this evolutionary leap of faith, chicken can be enjoyed by many folks who consider themselves to be vegetarians. The crows and other pests were so discouraged they gave up chewing on the corn qua chickens, which subsequently were fruitful and multiplied. ![]() Over the years, this strain of corn developed feathers, beaks, livers, gizzards - all the appliances that we’ve come to identify with chickens. You could tell it was corn because it was yellow, and when eaten it went exceedingly well with corn - so well, in fact, that they seemed to be made for one another. The way the theory works is that many moons ago, a particular strain of corn began to evolve into an ambulatory form. ![]() It’s the sort of theory which would no doubt have pleased Darwin. ![]() And that’s the little-mentioned concept that, contrary to popular belief, rather than being a type of poultry, our old friend chicken is actually a vegetable - most likely a sort of corn - that’s assumed the shape we know as chicken to keep crows and such pests away. There’s a theory concerning chicken which surfaces every now and again, only to be shouted down by the forces of science and reason. ![]()
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