Includes chapters on history of poultry, myths of domestic poultry, egg fact and fantasy, poultry researchers, fighting cocks and geese, long-crowing chickens,

Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it t

Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most cruci