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postures considered “unnatural.” A rider in and Shep-
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incidental, or other damages. All items listed are subject to prior sale. Tidbits considers it’s ad- • Tom Stewart of Encinitas, California, along
vertisers reliable and verifies as much data as possible. However, readers using this information with his architect brother Mike, are credited
do so at their own risk. It is suggested that investors contact the appropriate consumer agency with designing and building the first halfpipe.
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reputable, neither Tidbits nor its’ employees accept any responsibility whatsoever for their actions the brothers were selling the plans to other
or claims. For more information to help you avoid rip-offs and exercise your consumer rights, boarders.
write: FTC, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580 or log on to http://www.ftc.
gov/bcp/consumer.shtm. • The first official skate park, Surf City, opened
in September, 1965, in Tucson, Arizona.
1. What member
of the Pro Foot- • The first modern-day skateboarding trick
ball Hall of Fame was introduced in 1978 by a young skater
Class of 2021 was named Alan “Ollie” Gelfand. Ollie didn’t
named general set out to invent the “Ollie” (as the trick is
manager of the now known), but by slamming his back foot
San Francisco down while sliding his front foot upwards
49ers in 2017? and simultaneously jumping into the air, and
2. How old was NASCAR driver Mor- leaving both feet on the board, the trick was
gan Shepherd when he started in born.
the 2014 Camping World RV Sales
301? • The record for the longest Ollie belongs to
3. Iga Swiatek, 2020 French Open pro skateboarder Jordan Hoffart who, in
women’s singles tennis champion, November, 2014, cleared a distance of 16
hails from what country? feet, 6 inches (7.57 m). In October, 2015,
4. In 2001, six-time Olympic pro Aaron “Jaws” Homoki ollied over 25
gold-medalist swimmer Amy Van stairs in Lyon, France, at a height of more
Dyken married Denver Broncos than 14.5 feet (4.42 m).
player Tom Rouen. What position
did he play? • Special skateboard shoes haven’t always
5. What sports nutrition center, been the norm. Most boarders used to skate
founded by Victor Conte, be- barefoot; in fact, an early skateboarding
came the focal point of a perfor- trick, appropriately called the “Gorilla Grip,”
mance-enhancing drug scandal in involved wrapping the toes around the board
the early 2000s? and jumping. In 1965, the Randolph Rubber
6. Bobby Winkles compiled a 524- Company debuted the first skateboard shoe
173 record and won three national called the Randy 720, similar to a Keds boat
titles as head coach of what college shoe with thick rubber outsoles. There were
baseball team? advertised with a “Tuff Toe ‘n Heel
and
7. What team snapped the Los An- “Tuffer” Randyprene rubber. Unfortunately,
geles Lakers’ NBA-record 33-game within a year after the 720’s introduction,
winning streak in January 1972? the company went under. In 1966, one of
(c) 2021 King Features Syndicate, Randolph’s employees, Paul Van Doren,
joined forces with his brother Jim to create
their own company they dubbed Vans. They
manufactured the shoes on the site of their
Anaheim, California, store, and sold 12
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SKATEBOARDING (continued): the completed Statue of Liberty is formally pre-
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• What would this sport be without Tony Hawk? oration of the friendship between France and
As a pre-teen, the San Diego-born Hawk was the United States. The statue was then disas-
identified as hyperactive and gifted with an I.Q. sembled and shipped to New York City, where it
of 144. He used his excess energy to excel would be reconstructed in 1886.
at skateboarding, and became a pro boarder
at age 14. In 1999, at age 31, Hawk became * On June 30, 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone WONDERFUL WORDS
the first to land a “900,” a trick that involved with the Wind,” one of the best-selling novels
completed 2.5 mid-air revolutions, rotating of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 FOOD WORDS
900 degrees. That year, a video game series movie, is published. Scarlett’s name was origi-
entitled “Tony Hawk’s Pro-Skater” made its nally Pansy, but a change was requested by the by Janet Spencer
debut. Since then, the series has generated publisher.
18 titles. • In Greek, gastro means stomach and
* On July 1, 1979, the Sony Walkman goes on nomia means law: gastronomic = the law
• Tony Hawk may have officially retired from pro sale. Only 3,000 were sold in the first month, but of the stomach.
competition in 2003, but that didn’t stop him after a massive advertising campaign, available
from performing his final “900” in 2016 at age stocks quickly sold out. • In France, grourmet meant a groom for
48. the horses. Later it came to mean any
* On July 3, 1989, Martha Ann Johnson is servant. Some servants were wine-
• Pro boarder Rodney Mullen has been called the arrested in Georgia for the 1982 murder of her tasters; some were connoisseurs of
“Godfather of Street Skateboarding.” Like Tony oldest child after an Atlanta newspaper initiated food. Eventually the word came to mean
Hawk, Mullen was also a pro at 14, winning his a new investigation into the suspicious death. one who is well studied in fine foods— a
first world skateboard championship at that Her three other children had also mysteriously gourmet.
age. Mullen is well-known for his invention died. Johnson’s case sparked a trend in which
of more than 30 tricks, including the kickflip, authorities look closely into the sudden deaths • The Middle Dutch word snacken meant
heelflip, flatground Ollie, Switchstance 360- of young children. to snap at a thing, such as a dog snaps
flip, and Godzilla rail flip. at a morsel of food tossed its way. Today
* On June 28, 1997, Mike Tyson bites Evander the English version of the word is snack.
• Just how dangerous is skateboarding? About Holyfield’s ear in the third round of their heavy-
100,000 boarders visit U.S. emergency rooms weight rematch. Though Holyfield was in obvi- • The French word bancus meant little
each year due to skateboarding-related ous pain, the fight resumed after a brief stop- bench, such as one would sit on during a
injuries. Many of the injuries stem from the page, and then Tyson bit Holyfield’s other ear. banquet.
fact that only 40% of riders wear the right Tyson was disqualified from the match and later
protective gear – helmets, wrist guards, knee suspended from boxing. FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE
pads, etc. However, that total number is less
than 25% of the number of injuries reported by (c) 2021 Hearst Communications, Inc. • Prince Charles Phillipe de Condé,
basketball players! All Rights Reserved grandnephew of Louis XIII, King of France
in the 1600s, had a sweet tooth. He
• The country of Norway considered wouldn’t eat anything that wasn’t sweet.
skateboarding dangerous enough to ban A chef made up a glaze made of sugar,
the sport from 1978 to 1989. During the 11- egg whites, and nuts. Poured over meats
year prohibition, boards were smuggled from and vegetables, Prince Condé finally ate
Germany and ramps were hidden in the woods stuff that was good for him. The glaze was
to evade the law. named after Condé, and the word came to
mean anything sweet: candy.
• Skateboarding will become an Olympic sport
for the first time in 2021 at the Tokyo Summer •  Samuel Benedict was a famous playboy.
Games. After a night of partying in 1894, he went
into the kitchens at the Waldorf-Astoria
in New York and made himself breakfast.
It consisted of two poached eggs on top
of bacon on top of buttered toast with
Hollandaise sauce poured over all. The
chef was so impressed that the Waldorf
added it to the menu and named it after
the inventor: eggs benedict.

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that soldiers in the field could eat. It was
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1. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first president to EATING YOUR WORDS
sign into law a declaration of war?
2. TELEVISION: What was the name of the federal In French, hors means outside and oeuvres
agent in the 1990s drama “Twin Peaks”? means the works: literally ‘apart from the main
3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the smallest country in work.’ The Latin word salsus meaning salted
South America? gives us our salad. Cole slaw is a salad which
4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the color ma- comes from the Dutch terms koolsa meaning
roon? cabbage, and sla meaning salad. The French
5. INVENTIONS: When was the can opener invented? word for head, caboch, gave us our cabbage.
6. MOVIES: What was Andy Dufresne’s profession Spago is the Italian word for little cord: spaghetti.
before he was sent to prison in 1994’s “The Shaw- The cantaloupe was first grown in Cantalupo,
shank Redemption”? Italy, and brussels sprouts come from Brussels,
7. U.S. STATES: Which state was the last one to be Belgium. Gelatin, Jello, and jelly come from the
admitted to the union? Latin word gelo meaning to congeal. Desservir
8. FAMOUS QUOTES: Who wrote this about summer, is French for clear away, and that’s what you
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the do before dessert is served. If you have some
wild air”? tutti-frutti for dessert, you’re eating an Italian
9. HISTORY: In what year were the first slaves from word meaning ‘all fruits.’ If you have some
Africa brought on a ship to the American colonies? chocolate, you’ll be using a Mexican-Indian
10. GEOLOGY: What kind of rock is coal? work for bitter water, chocolatl. And if your
family is giving you heat over the number of
(c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc. calories you’re consuming, well, calorie is Latin
for heat.

FAST FACTS

• Peanuts are known as
goobers because the African
word for peanut is nguba.

• The old French word moisseron
was mispronounced by
the English and became
mushroom.

• The German word
knappen means ‘to eat’
and a knappensack was a
sack holding things to eat: a
knapsack.

• The Peruvian word
charqui meant meat that had
been cut in strips and hung out
to dry. Today we call it jerky.

• In Old English, grappe
meant a cluster of fruit growing
together, and grape was the
hook that they were gathered
with. Today, grape means the
fruit itself, and grapple means
struggling with a problem
much as a harvester struggles
with a hook.

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* A green cat was born in Denmark in 1995. TYPES OF PEPPER
Some people believe that high levels of
copper in the water pipes nearby may have • There are around 20 species of Piper
given his fur a verdigris effect. plant, and about 100 types of products
that they yield, but Piper nigrum, black
* Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the pepper, remains the all-time favorite. The
iconic jungle man Tarzan, worked as a berries yield three different kinds of pepper,
pencil-sharpener salesman before trying his depending on when they are harvested and
hand at fiction. He only started writing at the how they are treated.
age of 36 to support his wife and two kids.
• To get black pepper, the berries are
* Boanthropy is a psychological disorder in harvested while still green and immature,
which patients believe they are a cow. before they have turned red. When they are
dried, they turn black and wrinkled.
* The infamous crocodile jump by James
Bond in “Live and Let Die” was performed • To get white pepper, the ripe red berries
with real crocs by the only person willing to are soaked in water, then mashed and
attempt it -- the owner of the crocodile farm. rinsed so the flesh of the berry falls off and
is discarded and only the interior white pit
* In early 2015, Mattel released Hello Bar- remains. Usually they are pickled or canned
bie, an interactive talking doll that didn’t just and sometimes they are quickly dehydrated
repeat preprogrammed phrases, but could or freeze-dried. White pepper is more
actually hold a two-way conversation. The aromatic but doesn’t taste as pungent. It
doll raised major concerns over privacy, is generally used in places where the chef
however, since the discussions between it doesn’t want little black specks showing up,
and child owners were recorded and sent to like cream sauces.
third-party vendors. Goodbye, Barbie!
• Green peppercorns, picked from the vine
* Like casinos, your local shopping mall is while still green berries, are not dried out in
intentionally designed to make you lose track conventional methods and will therefore rot
of time, with clocks and windows removed quickly if not preserved. Green peppercorns
to prevent views of the outside world, in a have a fresh, mild flavor.
type of “scripted disorientation” known as the
Gruen Transfer. • Because most of the piperine is contained
in the skin of the berry, black pepper has
* The original recipe for chocolate contained the fullest range of flavor and aroma. It is
chili powder instead of sugar. also the easiest to produce, so it’s the least
expensive kind.

• Ground pepper is speckled in coloring
because each ground up peppercorn
consists of the dark covering and the light
pit.

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Blue Water Navy Agent
Orange Claims

One of the first lawsuits brought Trivia Answers
against the Department of Veterans
Affairs for benefits for veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange 1. James Madison, War of 1812
was in 1986. At issue in Nehmer v. U.S. Department of Veterans Af- 2. Agent Dale Cooper
fairs was the fact that the only medical condition acknowledged by 3. Suriname
the VA was chloracne ... a very serious skin condition caused by ex- 4. Dark brownish red
posure to dioxins and dibenzofurans. It’s been a very long haul since 5. 1858 -- almost 50 years after
then to get the VA to acknowledge (and pay for) other damage done canned food was invented
by Agent Orange. 6. Banker
The Nehmer Law was created for veterans, spouses, children and 7. Hawaii
parents of any Vietnam veteran who should have received exposure 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson
benefits but didn’t. Since 1991, the VA has paid out billions of dollars 9. 1619
in AO exposure benefits for diabetes, ischemic heart disease, Parkin- 10. Sedimentary
son’s disease, cancers and more, but they’ve resisted every step of
the way.
In November 2020, attorneys went back to court to force the VA to
address the exposure suffered by Blue Water Navy veterans who lit-
erally drank, breathed and showered in AO while on ships in the har-
bor. The Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019 extended the
presumption of exposure to include more than aboard-ship service.
Now, thanks again to Nehmer, the VA is required to readjudicate any
denied Blue Water claims. The reviews started in April. No new claim
is required, and any changes to claims are supposed to be automat-
ic. It applies not only to veterans, but their survivors as well. Still at
issue is whether the VA will pay retroactively for denied claims.
To learn more, go online to congress.gov and search for H.R.299 --
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019. For eligibility spe-
cifics, go to va.gov and search for Agent Orange. And if you’d like to
know where the class action lawsuit began, look up Beverly Nehmer.

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Are You Ready to Come Out Now? Sports Quiz Answers

Warm weather is here, which ideally would coincide 1. John Lynch.
with ending the coronavirus restrictions that have 2. 72.
kept us isolated for well over a year. Are you ready 3. Poland.
to come out now? 4. Punter.
Many of us aren’t, which isn’t surprising given the ever-changing facts: It’s OK to take 5. Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BAL-
your mask off/no, keep wearing your mask. It’s time to go out for a restaurant meal/ CO).
restaurants are still limited in the number of diners they can allow. More than half the 6. The Arizona State Sun Devils.7. The Mil-
population has now been vaccinated/many younger people are refusing the vaccine. waukee Bucks.
And therein lies the complication in returning all of us to normal life: those who don’t
want the vaccine.
Imagine my shock when I called the medical practice the day before my annual phys-
ical to ask whether all employees had been vaccinated. “No,” said the cheerful man
who answered the phone. “We’re not required to get it.”
I brought this up when I saw my doctor. To his credit, he didn’t try to lie to me.
Why, inquiring minds wanted to know, in a medical setting with sick people in and out
all day, didn’t they require employees, especially the ones who get close enough to
breathe on patients, to get the vaccine? Because, the doctor said, if they are required
to take the vaccine, too many of them would just quit and the medical practice would
have to shut down.
It seems to me that advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
local governments varies by the day. But we still need to wear masks. We still need to
distance ourselves from people, stay out of crowds and avoid poorly ventilated spac-
es.
To my way of thinking, only one thing has really changed: the weather. It’s time to get
out and walk, get some sunshine, build leg muscles and admire the neighbors’ flow-
ers. Wear a hat.

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PEPPER Continued from page 6 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Family and
friends rally around as you confront an un-
• Refined piperine, by weight, is about one percent as hot as the capsaicin which makes chili expected challenge. Some plans will have to
peppers hot. be changed until all the fuss and fluster settle
down.
• It’s been estimated that an ounce of pepper is enough to season nearly 1,500 eggs. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your creative
gifts find new outlets for expression this week.
COOKING WITH PEPPER Someone (a Libra, perhaps) has ideas that
you might find surprisingly appealing. Pay
• Pepper that’s added to soups and stews will taste different from pepper added to fried or attention.
roasted dishes. The oils released when the peppercorn is cracked begin evaporating as they GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’ll soon be
are gradually dispersed throughout the food. Lengthy simmering will destroy the flavor, so it’s able to restart those delayed travel plans. A
best to add the pepper at the end of the cooking. Some chefs use white pepper while the dish financial matter you thought was closed could
is cooking, and garnish with black pepper just before serving. suddenly reopen. Be prepared to take swift,
decisive action.
• Simple recipe: To make pepper-flavored butter, grind about one teaspoon of pepper corns. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A romantic rela-
Place them in a cheesecloth bag. Melt about half a pound of butter, and let the bag full of tionship takes an unexpected turn. You might
crushed pepper simmer in the butter for a short time. Remove the pepper and chill the butter. be confused about how to react. It’s best not
Use the pepper butter on vegetables, steaks, and potatoes. to be rushed into a decision that you’re not
ready to make.
• Soak a few whole peppercorns in milk prior to making a white sauce for a savory flavor. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Don’t let your
pride stand in the way of resolving an emo-
• Toast peppercorns in a dry frying pan for a nutty flavor. tionally painful situation. This is a good time to
deal with it and let the healing finally begin.
• Street vendors in India often sell sliced fruit sprinkled with freshly ground pepper. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A work-
place problem that you’ve been handling so
• Add a few drops of pepper oil to brandy to give it extra kick. well suddenly spins out of control. Don’t panic.
You can rely on your good sense to help you
FAST FACT restore order.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Wearing
• Pepper only grows well in tropical regions where there is heavy rainfall followed by a dry spell. rose-colored glasses won’t solve a thorny per-
When Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama wanted to transplant cuttings in Europe, the ruler sonal situation. You need to take a hard look
of Calicut in India told him, “You can take our pepper, but you will never be able to take our at what’s happening and then act according to
rains.” the facts.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21)
Weigh all your options carefully before making
any decisions you’ve been putting off. Then
go ahead and plan a weekend of family fun.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December
21) While personal and financial situations
continue to improve, some setbacks might
occur. But they’re only temporary, so hang in
there.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)
Family matters dominate the week. Health
problems raise concern, but soon prove to be
less serious than you had feared. Things start
easing up by the weekend.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Most
situations are calmer now, both at home and
on the job. But there’s still a chance that a
co-worker will set off another round of un-
pleasantness.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) There’s no
need to fish for compliments from an admirer
who can’t say enough nice things about you.
The upcoming holiday bodes well for family
gatherings.
BORN THIS WEEK: You love to compete,
both on a personal and a sporting level, and
you hate to settle for anything less than excel-
lence.

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1. Is the book of Habakkuk in the Old or BIBLE TRIVIA
New Testament or neither? ANSWERS: 1) Old; 2) David; 3) Job; 4)
2. From 2 Samuel, who asked, “How are Peacemakers; 5) Esther; 6) Daniel
the mighty fallen, and the weapons of
war perished?”? Saul, Simeon, David,
Peter
3. Who said, “I have heard many such
things; miserable comforters are ye all”?
Samson, Goliath, Devil, Job
4. From the Beatitudes, who shall be
called the sons of God? Hungry, Peace-
makers, Merciful, Lonely
5. What Jewish lady became queen of
Persia? Abigail, Sarah, Esther, Ruth
6. Whose biblical name means “God is
judge”? Titus, Festus, David, Daniel

“Test Your Bible Knowledge,” a book
with 1,206 multiple-choice questions by
columnist Wilson Casey, is available in
stores and online.

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Photo Credit: Paramount/Walt Disney
Photo Caption: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall in “Popeye”

Humans crave news and entertainment, and there’s no better place to get
it than your local newspaper. Alongside stories of this and that, you get
recipes and notices of sales, puzzles and games, and of course, the com-
ics section. Comic strips have fascinated us since the earliest days of The
Yellow Kid, a simple gag panel featuring a bald boy in a yellow nightdress.
Who knew? But these artful characters and situations draw us in, and delight and connect us. Here are six comic strips that jumped off the funny
pages to the big screen!

“Garfield” -- America’s favorite lasagna-loving cat enjoys napping and eating while tolerating dim-witted but sweet Odie. In the 2004 movie ver-
sion, Jon is talked into adopting a dog (Odie) who the local weather anchor plots to steal, forcing Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) to reluctantly
save him. Garfield is CGI, but the rest of the gang is live action, including Breckin Meyer as Jon and Stephen Tobolowsky as the villainous Hap-
py Chapman. My children love this movie and I have seen it 4,000 times.

“Dick Tracy” -- Warren Beatty’s hard-boiled detective movie featured iconic art direction and faithfulness to the characters and tone of the strip,
but it didn’t wow audiences at the time -- even with Madonna as Breathless Mahoney, the songstress dame who may be a witness against crime
boss Big Boy (Al Pacino off his rocker), but who expends a lot of energy trying to tempt Tracy away from Tess, his girlfriend.

“Dennis the Menace” -- In the 1993 film version, George Wilson (Walter Matthau) and wife Martha (Joan Plowright) are next-door neighbors who
end up as a pinch-hitter babysitters for Dennis -- an angelic-looking but trouble-attracting child -- when his parents must go out of town. When
Dennis gets taken hostage by a town robber, cranky old George must play the hero.

“Flash Gordon” -- An absolute icon of camp, this adventure features a football star (Flash, played by Sam Jones) and a travel agent (Dale,
played by Melody Anderson) who escape dodgy Earth conditions and accompany a scientist (Dr. Zarkov, played by Topol) in a spaceship to the
planet Mongo. There they battle the evil Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow) for the future of Earth itself.

“Popeye” -- Robin Williams pipes life and heart into the punch-packing, spinach-eating sailor man, Popeye, as he visits the waterfront town of
Sweetwater looking for his dad. There he encounters loveable folk, including soon-to-be-sweetheart Olive Oyl (magnificently played by Shelley
Duvall) and an orphaned baby, Swee’Pea.

“Annie” -- The comic strip that became a Broadway musical that became a movie (more than once), all down to a little girl who goes full rags to
riches when she’s plucked from an orphanage (headed by Carol Burnett’s Mrs. Hannigan) to spend a week with Daddy Warbucks (Albert Fin-
ney) in the midst of the Great Depression.

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Deep-Fried Chicken Is Finger Lickin’ Good

I don’t know why fried chicken tastes better when it’s served on a picnic table. The beauty
of deep-fried yard bird is that if it’s cooked properly, you don’t need silverware, a plate or
a napkin. Licking one’s fingers after taking an extra-large bite of beautifully fried, crispy

chicken is the highest complaint a cook can receive.
This recipe for Finger Lickin’ Chicken is a combination of my mother’s, my friends’ and my

own fried-chicken recipe. Cook up a batch, whip up some side dishes, grab your family
and friends, and find a picnic table. It’s the perfect summertime meal.

FINGER-LICKIN’ CHICKEN
The brining and chicken prep steps shouldn’t be skipped for the most flavorful chicken and the best results.

These steps can be done a day in advance or before leaving for the day, if you want fried chicken for dinner.

2 tablespoons table salt Photo Credit: Depositphotos
2 tablespoons poultry seasoning Photo Caption: Fried chicken
2 tablespoons hot sauce
3 bay leaves
1 quart low-fat buttermilk
1 whole chicken (about 3 1/2 pounds, giblets discarded, washed and
cut into pieces -- breast pieces in half)
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Refined peanut oil or vegetable shortening (about 12 cups)

To Make the Brining Mixture:
1. In a large zipper-lock plastic bag, combine salt, poultry seasoning, hot sauce and bay leaves. Shake the bag to mix the spices
thoroughly. Add 3 3/4 cups of the buttermilk into the bag, reserving 1/4 cup. Stir or shake with the bag sealed until the salt is com-
pletely dissolved.
2. Immerse the chicken in the mixture. Place the bag of chicken pieces in a large baking pan to prevent leaks. Refrigerate 1 hour or
up to 8 hours to allow the pieces to become fully seasoned.

To Prepare the Chicken:
Remove the chicken from the buttermilk brine and shake off excess. Place the pieces in single layer on large wire rack set over a
rimmed baking sheet. This step will dry the skin slightly to allow it to become crispy when frying. Refrigerate, uncovered, for 2 hours.
(After 2 hours, the chicken can be covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated up to 6 hours longer, if needed).

Coating and Frying the Chicken:
1. Mix together the flour, poultry seasoning, baking powder, salt, black pepper, paprika and cayenne pepper in a large, shallow dish.
Stir in the remaining 1/4 cup buttermilk. Combine the ingredients with your fingertips. The buttermilk will make the flour mixture thick
and slightly lumpy. Working in batches of 3, drop the chicken pieces in the flour. Press both sides of the chicken pieces into the flour

and lumpy pieces to coat. Gently shake excess flour from each piece.
2. Adjust oven rack to middle position, set second wire rack over second rimmed baking sheet, and place on oven rack. Heat the
oven to 200 F to keep chicken warm while frying in batches. Line a large plate with double layer of paper towels to drain the fried

chicken pieces on after removing them from the oil.
3. Pour 3/4-inches of oil in a large, 8-quart, cast-iron Dutch oven with a diameter of about 12 inches or into a deep-fat fryer. Heat the
oil to 375 F over medium-high heat. Place a few of the dark meat chicken pieces, skin-side down, in the oil. Do not crowd the chick-

en. Cover with a heavy lid. Reduce the heat to medium, and fry.
4. After about 3 minutes, lift the chicken pieces with tongs to check for even browning; rearrange if some pieces are browning faster
than others. Check the oil temperature with a thermometer after the first 6 minutes of frying. The oil should be about 325¡F., adjust
the temperature by turning the heat up or down as necessary. Continue cooking for another 4 to 6 minutes, until the chicken is gold-

en brown.
5. Turn the chicken pieces over and continue to fry, with the pan uncovered, until chicken pieces are deep golden brown on the
second side, 6 to 8 minutes longer. Using tongs, transfer the chicken to a paper towel-lined plate; let stand 2 minutes to drain, then

transfer to rack in warm oven.
6. Replace paper-towel lining on plate. Return oil to 375 F and fry remaining pieces, transferring pieces to paper towel-lined plate to

drain, then transferring to wire rack. Cool chicken pieces on wire rack (outside oven) about 5 minutes and serve. Serves 4 to 6.
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Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new

cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much,
much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from

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