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Anthropology of Food



to Sweet Treats around the World

What FoodAnthro is Reading Now . . .
. Sunday, 17 November 2024, 05:26 (05:26 AM) CST, day 322 of 2024 .
 
BBC Food
The Gardian News/ The GardianAnimals Farmed/

World Food and Water Clock
OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.    
 
     
Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.
"Palermo,Sicily
Italy
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
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U.S.A.

Eating rat.
"Eating Rat At The New Year"
Vietnam
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Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Desert People
Australia

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Chickens

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 Nora Elizabeth Roufs and Chickens

Nora Elizabeth Roufs
(Illustrating what urban chicken farming is really all about.)

see also:

Eggs
Animal Domestication
Animal Welfare / Animal Rights
Urban Farming
Prairie Chickens
Fake Meat

chicken
NOUN:  

1 a : the common domestic fowl (Gallus gallus) especially when young; also : its flesh used as food — compare jungle fowl b : any of various birds or their young
2 : a young woman
3 a : coward b : any of various contests in which the participants risk personal safety in order to see which one will give up first
4 [short for chickenshit] slang : petty details
5 slang : a young male homosexual

INTRANSITIVE
VERB:
  to lose one's nerve —usually used with out <seemed to exhibit courage, manliness, and conviction when others chickened out — J. R. Seeley
ADJECTIVE:  

1 a : scared b : timid, cowardly
2 slang a : insistent on petty details of duty or discipline b : petty, unimportant

ETYMOLOGY:   Etymology: Middle English chiken, from Old English cicen young chicken; akin to Old English cocc cock

Date: 14th century

"chicken." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010.
Merriam-Webster Online. 26 February 2010
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken>

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Chicken

A rooster and hen chicken.

A rooster (left) and hen (right)

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
   
Genus: Gallus
Species: Gallus gallus
Subspecies: Gallus gallus domesticus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Binomial name
Synonyms: Rooster (m), Hen (f)

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St. Brigit of Ireland (Kildare), Patroness of Chicken Farmers

St. Brigit of Ireland (Kildare),
Patroness of Chicken Farmers,
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 Somerset knitters make jumpers for bald chickens.

  Somerset knitters make jumpers for bald chickens
  BBC News (25 February 2010)


Buff Orpington rooster.

Buff Orpington rooster
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Free-range chickens, The Flying McCoys, 30 January 2011

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