AlwaysHolidays: On the Fourth Day of Christmas
Arthur Bovino and Maryse Chevrière — December 15, 2009
Technically, the Twelve Days of Christmas don’t start until Christmas Day, but we’re already in the holiday spirit. So to celebrate over the next eight days, we’ll bring you the classic carol, ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ AlwaysHungry-style, with thematic dishes we’d be willing to sing about.
Four Calling Birds. What are calling birds anyway? They’re supposedly the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; or their Gospels. “Calling birds,” are also said to be an Americanization of the English name for blackbirds, “colly birds.” Not sure about you, but we haven’t eaten any blackbirds lately. Instead we focused on chicken dishes from four restaurants whose names include a bird.
Today, our Christmas food carol begins:
On the fourth day of Christmas, my waiter brought to me… chicks from four birds,
Clockwise from top left: Charles’ Country Pan Fried Chicken’s Fried Chicken, Mad for Chicken’s Korean Fried Chicken, Little Owl’s Crispy Chicken, and from Dirty Bird, Rotisserie Chicken.
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