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| | Crispy Roast Chicken, a fail-safe recipe |  LIKE most cooks, I've had many c o n v e r s a - tions on the proper way to roast a whole chicken.
Some argue that roasting with the breast side down is the very best way to keep the bird moist enough, while others insist that method produces a zebra-striped bird stamped with its roasting lines. And what's the correct roasting temperature? 350 F, 400 F or even 500 F degrees? This controversy isn't new.
While doing research for my book The New California Cook, I came across this note in The California Cookbook (1946): Author Genevieve Callahan wrote, "I am inclined to feel that the temperature and the length of time of roasting have more bearing on juiciness than has position during roasting." I agree with her, although her recipe suggests a 325 F oven.
In an "unorthodox note," Callahan mentions high-heat roasting and cites "an old Italian short time-high temperature method." This crispy roast chicken is modelled after that "old" Italian technique.
I find that cooking whole chickens at 425 F keeps them juicy inside and crispy-brown on the outside. (If you have a convection setting on your oven, use it and ... | | | London's new Town Hall Hotel |  HAVING grown up in London, I feel somewhat responsible for it. So when I see tourists trudging through Hackney, my indisputably unlovely neighbourhood in east London, kicking crisp packets down the Bethnal Green Road, I want to take their puffa-jacketed arms and lead them to another part of town. Somewhere more genteel and less urine-scented.
Somewhere that will make them jealous, rather than itchy.
Somewhere with dry cleaners rather than launderettes. You know? As my months in this part of the city turn into years, and years into decades, I feel myself falling out of love with it, just a bit. So, like couples who decide to spice up their desiccated marriages, I decided to revitalise our relationship. I decided to take a holiday right here. It sounds oxymoronic, I know: Hackney, scene of riots, gun crime, the TV drama Top Boy about young drug deale r s .
Where rain was invented. Sudden holiday destination for many this year, unwittingly visiting for the Olympics.
A new hotel opened in Bethnal Green's old town hall last year, opposite the kebab shop, just beyond the all-night snooker club.
... | | | Brad Pitt excited over Oscar nomination |  BRAD Pitt's six kids with Angelina Jolie are in for a treat! The 48-year-old actor was just recently nominated in the Best Actor category at the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
(The Descendants), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Demian Bichir (A Better Life) — said he's "ecstatic" to be recognised.
"It means so much considering this film was just dead on the rocks two years ago," Pitt said. "It took a lot of people, a lot of artisans and craftsmen, to get it to the screen. It's a great honour, a real tribute to Billy Beane and Oakland A's organisation. I'm really happy." The actor's 28-year-old costar Jonah Hill also scored his first Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. "I'm so happy for Jonah Hill," Pitt raved. "I can't tell you." Moneyball wasn't the only film to earn Pitt praise. "I'm doubly happy that Tree of Lifemade it in there," he said. "We thought we were all but forgotten; just excited for [director and nominee] Terry Malick." The actor and producer, who's been in love with 36-year-old Jolie since 2005, said he's looking forward to seeing Clooney, 50, at the show. ... | |
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