Good Food
'Big Chicken'
The saying, “a chicken in every pot”, originally meant an America strong enough that every worker could afford what was considered a luxury meat once a week. In her book “ Big Chicken ,” Maryn McKenna looks at how the discovery of antibiotics allowed food to become industrialized.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readThe saying, “a chicken in every pot”, originally meant an America strong enough that every worker could afford what was considered a luxury meat once a week. In her book “Big Chicken,” Maryn McKenna looks at how the discovery of antibiotics allowed food to become industrialized.
