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Twin-row planting may help increase production
By Jennifer Carrico
Finding a way to produce more corn on fewer acres is the goal of one innovator. Iowa farmer John Frahm decided seven years ago to investigate planting corn in twin rows.
"We wanted to be able to produce more yields on our small farm when the market prices were rising. We started searching for information about twin-row production seven years ago and planted our first field five years ago," said Frahm, who farms with his father, Ken, in Audubon and Crawford counties in west-central Iowa.
Frahm said they couldn't simply change to twin-row planting without looking at their farm ground, too.
"Soil health is extremely important for us. We want the corn to never have a bad day. That means knowing when and what to add to the soil or topically in order to get the most out of the plant," Frahm said.
It is also is important to find the right hybrid when planting in twin rows. Frahm said they look for the right hybrid and have tried several different brands.
"Twin-row planting has been around for a long time, but hasn't typically been planned by a plant breeder. We are going from 23,000 seeds per acre to 45,000 seeds per acre, so we want to be sure the plants have the best opportunity to grow," Frahm said.
Frahm plants the twin rows in 30-inch intervals and 4 inches from each other, so they can continue to use the other equipment they have including the combine without making adjustments. The twin-row planter came with a learning curve, but the group of producers from across the country whom he's became contacted with has helped him understand the important things to watch.
"We've learned that it's important for the planter to be level with the ground in order to ensure the seeds are the same depth," Frahm said. "That way seed emergence is more consistent."
Some updates on planter settings have been made through the years for efficiency, but the same monitors are used on the twin-row planter as a normal planter.
"We still get off the tractor to make sure the planter is putting the seeds in the ground correctly. You can't guarantee everything will be perfect just because the monitor says it is," Frahm said.
Timing of planting is very challenging for the twin-row producer, which also goes along with hybrid selection. He said it's important to work with a seedsman who understands what they are looking for, including a shorter statured corn so there is less residue in the end.
"We will have a lot more residue in the end with the higher populations, so selecting the right hybrid is very important. We need a shorter statured corn plant with a strong stalk and ear connection," he said.
While the ultimate goal is to increase yields by increasing the plant population per acre, Frahm said they have seen both and increase and a decrease in yields on their farm.
"There are so many factors involved in raising corn in any kind of situation. Mother Nature is always the factor that is unknown," Frahm said.
In 2013, his farm had abundant rains in early spring but no rain after May, and their yields were still 180 bushels per acre. He said the corn actually ran out of nitrogen before it ran out of water. The middle and end of the growing season is when the corn needs the nitrogen more than during the first part of the growing season.
Research at Purdue University showed differences in yields of twin-row fields mostly based on weather conditions as well. Agronomy professor Tony Vyn said corn yields are strongly dependent on the environment, hybrid, nitrogen supply and/or water availability.
"The highest grain yields were not automatically associated with the highest plant density evaluated in our studies. There are so many other factors involved in this," Vyn said.
The researchers also believe that there is a level of plant density that can deter from yield because of too high of a plant competition.
Vyn said the challenge is figuring out what is the best condition for planting in twin rows since the research results are so varied.
Frahm said one of the advantages of planting in the twin rows is the plants get to canopy sooner and weeds are easier to control. They don't add a pre-planting herbicide, but rather need an application a bit later in the growing season.
"It can be a challenge to spray with the twin rows and with the hills on our farm ground. But the shorter statured corn makes it easier to spray," Frahm said. High-clearance sprayers are available, but they may be able to spray the corn this year with a normal sprayer depending on when it needs done.
They have also decided to use a different kind of nitrogen application that will release the nitrogen later in the season and hopefully will provide enough nitrogen for the plant when it is most needed.
"We have to cut down stress to a minimum. We apply gypsum to increase our soil health," Frahm said. "We want to keep it simple but give the corn plant the best opportunity to perform."
He said they have even planted some fields of soybeans with the twin-row system if the timing is too late for corn, but they prefer to just keep the twin rows on corn ground.
The Frahms have planted twin rows in both a continuous corn option and a corn, soybean rotation. He said it's important to be flexible and know the ground before deciding to plant the twin rows. Planting twin rows in a continuous corn situation can be more challenging because there is more residue from the previous year.
While Frahm doesn't always see a yield increase, he said he will continue to use the twin-row system.
"It's a continual learning experience. When we have the ideal weather conditions, we should see a larger increase in yields. We haven't found the ideal hybrid yet either but hope that some of our recent changes will help with yield increases," Frahm said. "You have to be willing to try new things and a lot of farmers have trouble with that."
Vyn said the three-year research done at Purdue didn't show a significant increase in yield of the twin-row system as compared to a single-row system. He said they think row and plant spacing could have a lot more to do with yield.
"In our research, the lack of response to twin rows may also have been influenced by the inability to achieve the theoretically optimum spacing arrangement," Vyn said. "Future research should explore the physiological consequences of alternate planting arrangements with comparable or superior spacing precision to traditional practice in different environments."
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Over hill, over dale [0'52]
Alister McAlpine's lament [3'30]
An acre of land [1'33]
The seeds of love [2'01]
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The dark-eyed sailor [2'03]
The spring time of the year [2'50]
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Just as the tide was flowing [2'02]
The lover's ghost [4'21]
Wassail song [2'28]
The winter is gone [1'43]
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Mannin veen [3'13]
Bushes and briars [2'35]
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Down among the dead men [2'08]
Sweet day [2'04]
O mistress mine [1'19]
The willow song [1'56]
Greensleeves [5'33]
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Rest [3'17]
Heart's music [2'47]
Come away, death [3'33]
Vaughan Williams's small-scale choral works are a comparatively lesser-known aspect of his art. The majority of these compositions arose from his folksong-collecting activities at the turn of the century; this recording brings some of his finest folksong arrangements together with other a cappella works. They cover the whole of the composer's long career. The Holst Singers are the foremost amateur choir in London. Under their musical director Stephen Layton they regularly perform on Radio 3 and Classic FM and in the major concert venues. The choir is joined for several songs by the renowned soloists Ian Bostridge and Michael George.
Vaughn Williams's small-scale choral works are a comparatively lesser-known aspect of his art. The majority of these compositions arose from his folksong-collecting activities at the turn of the century; this recording brings some of his finest folksong arrangements together with other a cappella works. They cover the whole of the composers long careerfrom The Willow Song, written when he was eighteen, to Hearts Music, composed three years before his death at the age of eighty-six.
The Willow Song and O Mistress Mine (setting well-known texts from Shakespeares Othello and Twelfth Night respectively) were published in 1913 as the second and third of Three Elizabethan Partsongs; however, they date from 1891, composed while Vaughan Williams was studying with Parry at the Royal College of Music. After gaining a BMus at Cambridge, he returned to the College in 1895 for further composition studies with Stanford; the following year the first of the group, Sweet Day (to words by George Herbert), was written. Scored for mixed voices, these part-songs show charm, but little sophistication in the choral writing. Nevertheless their simple, diatonic harmony is far removed from the rich chromaticism of the day and points to the mature composer. The singing of part-songs and madrigals was a popular pastime of the period, and both Rest and Come away, death were conceived with this market in mind. Rest (composed in 1902 to a poem by Christina Rossetti) was dedicated to Members of The Magpie Madrigal Society, while a further Shakespeare setting, Come away, death (1909) is described as a Madrigalian Part-Song. The harmonic archaisms of the latter were doubtless a conscious conceit on Vaughan Williamss part considering the genre; however, more significantly, they reflect too the absorption of seventeenth-century influences into his own style.
Another crucial influence on Vaughan Williamss developing voiceEnglish folksonghad been playing its part since 1893 when he found the song Dives and Lazarus in a collection entitled English Country Songs published that year. As he wrote in his essay A Musical Autobiography (1950), I had a sense of recognitionheres something which I have known all my lifeonly I didnt know it!. In the article English Folksongs (1912), he gave his definition of a folksong as a series of individual variations on a common theme a folksong is like a tree, whose stem dates back from immemorial times, but which continually puts out new shoots In one aspect the folksong is as old as time itself; in another aspect it is no older than the singer who sang it.
The gathering of folksongs and dances began in the middle of the nineteenth century and led to the foundation of the Folk Song Society in 1899. The movement gathered momentum through the zeal of Cecil Sharp who, realizing that the oral tradition was rapidly dying out, determined that it was essential to collect the songs urgently before they were lost for ever. The first folksong Sharp collected was The Seeds of Love, sung to him in September 1903 by John England as he mowed the vicarage lawn in the Somerset village of Hambridge. Vaughan Williams also collected two variants of it in Suffolk and Essex under the titles of The Red Running Rue and The Sprig of Thyme respectively; his arrangement for male voices dates from 1923. His own first experience of collecting took place at Ingrave, Essex, three months after Sharps. He had been lecturing on folksong in Brentwood and after the lecture he was approached by two sisters who told him that their father, the vicar of Ingrave, was holding a tea-party for elderly residents from the village. Perhaps, they suggested, these old people might know some songs. Although none volunteered to sing at the party, Charles Pottifer, a shepherd, agreed to meet Vaughan Williams the following day; consequently on 4 December the haunting song Bushes and Briars was saved for posterity. Five years later the composer made his arrangement for male voices.
From there on Vaughan Williams became an avid collector, notating over eight hundred songs during the next decade. The discovery of what he described as the intrinsic beauty of folksong profoundly affected his own compositions; folksong became a liberating force, showing him a path to develop his own musical personality. As he summed it up in A Musical Autobiography: If a composer can, by tapping the sources hidden in folksong, make beautiful music, he will be disloyal to his art if he does not make full use of such an avenue of beauty. The tales the singers sang to Vaughan Williams, Sharp and other collectors were many and varied: stories of loves lost and found, of desertion, death, crime, betrayal, bold deeds, ghostly apparitions, customs, the cycle of the seasons and the pattern of the daily round, on land and seathe very stuff of human life. This is what we hear in the Five English Folksongs. Composed in 1912 for mixed voices, they represent a high point in Vaughan Williamss folksong arrangements. He described them as freely adapted from the original songs; indeed they are compositions in their own right rather than simply arrangements, for the vocal writing is masterly with subtle, evocative textures that underpin and heighten the words.
The Dark-eyed Sailor was another gem rescued by Vaughan Williams on his first foray on 4 December 1903 when it was sung to him by Mrs Horsnell and her daughter. The song is also known as Fair Phoebe and he collected it a further four times in Norfolk, Surrey and Dorset. The Spring Time of the Year mixes images of spring and yearning young love with a solo tenor highlighted against the other voices singing chords with closed lips. In Just as the tide was flowing (a folksong which Sharp collected in Somerset, but which Vaughan Williams also notated three times in Norfolk) the composer takes the word flowing and turns it into a watery, cascading image. The Lovers Ghost (also known as The Suffolk Miracle, The Grey Cock, and The Drowsy Sleeper) is the finest of the group; subtitled Well met, my own true love, it rises to a passionate climax through superb part-writing that rivals the seventeenth-century madrigalists whom Vaughan Williams venerated. The verve of the Wassail Song provides not only a brilliant foil to the intensity of the previous song, but also a vivacious conclusion to the set. Vaughan Williams collected the tune in Herefordshire from Mr Dukes of Pembridge in 1909. Wassailing was a West Country custom that took place on 5 January (the eve of the Epiphany) when libations would be offered to the apple trees. (The word itself is of Saxon origin meaning good health.) The revellers are heard at first from afar, and after offering their toasts in ebullient (and doubtless liquid) good humour they disappear over the fields and orchards, their voices fading into the wintry night.
Although Vaughan Williams was almost exclusively interested in English folksongs and did no collecting north of the border, he made several mixed-voice arrangements of Scottish traditional melodies. Of these Loch Lomond (1921), and Ca the yowes (1922, a setting of Robert Burns), have become justly popular. Alister McAlpines Lament (1912), with words by Robert Allan, however, is a rarity; Vaughan Williamss source was R A Smiths The Scottish Minstrel, published between 1820 and 1824. Of the other mixed-voice arrangements represented, Mannin Veen (1912) has a Manx melody and words (performed here in the English translation) which Vaughan Williams found in Dr Clagues manuscript collection, whilst An Acre of Land (1934) was sung to the composer by Frank Bailey in Combe Bissett, Wiltshire, in 1904. The curvaceous melody of The Turtle Dove (1924) was collected by him twice in Sussex during November 1904, from Mrs Verral of Horsham and Mr Penfold of Rusper. Also known as the True Lovers Farewell the bird is personified as a symbol of faithfulness. Finally a song which is not strictly speaking a folksong but one that has survived in both the oral tradition and in print for over four hundred years, Greensleeves. In 1580 it was referred to as A new Northern Dittie of the Lady Green Sleeves; it was published in William Ballets Lute Book of 1600 and included in the seventh edition of Playfords The Dancing Master. Vaughan Williams incorporated it within his opera Sir John in Love (19248) and made this choral arrangement in 1945.
As is evident in the settings of The Seeds of Love and Bushes and Briars, the dark, ebony-hued texture of male voices appealed greatly to Vaughan Williams. One more example is the ravishing setting of The Winter is gone (1912), a further evocation of the dual blossoming of nature in spring and youthful emotions. For the final two verses he used words from the version of the song that Sharp had collected in Somerset. Mens voices were also particularly apposite for nautical arrangements considering the male domination of ships crews, as in the shanty-like version of the old English air Down among the dead men (1912).
Vaughan Williamss admiration for the poetry of the seventeenth century remained with him throughout his life; in the early fifties he wrote his finest music to Shakespeare as well as an elusive, rather mysterious response to Thomas Campions Hearts Music (1954). Its chorale-like opening with chill, bare harmonies recalls the Sinfonia antartica (194952) and is alternated with a rocking medieval-like melody. The Three Shakespeare Songs, composed as he was entering his eighth decade in 1951, are miracles of compressed musical expression. Full fathom five (from Act I, Scene 2 of The Tempest) portrays the eerie subterranean bells tolling their requiem for the lost mariners, with strange harmonies emphasizing their sea-change metamorphosis. Even more powerful is the second, The Cloud-cappd towers, Prosperos great speech from Act IV, Scene 1 of the same play, where the opening chords seem to be suspended, floating in the air, as they conjure images of towers, palaces, temples and the great globe itself. Realization of mankinds insubstantial nature and, in the context of time, inconsequential existence, is brought home by a hushed, disembodied chordal procession at We are such stuff as dreams are made on. This vein of intensity is blown away in Over hill, over dale, from Act II, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Nights Dream; a nimble, gossamer scherzo, as fleet as Puck himself.
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- souphie May 29, 2010 01:39 PM
Someone on the France board asked a question about roast chicken in Paris, but my response was deemed off topic there -- here it is again, if anyone's interested.
Chicken in Paris are the best in the world. Not because they're well cooked: they're not. But because of the quality of French chicken, and the fact that only French people (and only a little number of that) are ready to pay the price that a good quality chicken costs. That's because really good chicken (eg Gauloise Blanche, Bresse, Géline de Touraine) requires a long growth (up to 120 days for some of them, as opposed to less than 40 for the crappiest environnemental chicken) and a lot of free space each (up to a few sqm per chicken, as opposed to 20 chicken par sqm for said crappiest), which results in very high individual costs -- easily 16e/kg (that's 9$/lb), so that a really nice chicken can cost north of 30e. (An occasion to reaffirm that 78e for that same chicken roasted and served with unlimited fries is not expensive -- eg l'Ami Louis).
I never found a rotisserie or a restaurant in Paris that cooks chicken correctly, no matter their quality. It's so true that non-connoisseurs end up preferring lower quality chicken, because they resist the atomization that passes for cooking these days better. Because they're full of water, they get less dry and never get tough, whereas a badly cooked high end chicken is hard to chew and unpleasant. Even l'Ambroisie and their rididulously expensive Gauloise Blanche (230e....) actually tends to overcook the breast.
So, the recipe for you best roast chicken in Paris, while in Paris, is as follows: buy a very high end chicken from a high end volailler or butcher (Coq Saint Honoré, Desnoyer, Grande Epicerie). Bresse is not a great choice for roasting. Stuff it inside and under the breast with anything, it does not really matter. I found that soaked bread or brioche is the easiest way, but old onions, potatoes or lemon would do, even if you would not use them for anything else. Then roast it either on rotating spit (many ovens have one) with the door open, or in a traditional oven by cooking it mostly on its thighs and not showing the breast to the heat.
The only alternative I'm aware for roast chicken that is cooked as it should be is not open yet. A home delivery service in the 15th will actually cook the breadst and thighs sousvide separately, then finish the chicken in a professional rotisserie. Chosing a poulet fermier from those guys shold come close to perfection in its class.
That said, every other butcher has a rotisserie outside his shop, so there has to be a good one somewhere (though their process actually ensures it's not the case).
I'm not sure this belongs on Home Cooking but I found it very interesting. It's along the lines of Julia Child's complaint in My Life in France on chickens in Paris vs. what she found in the US. She developed her recipes in Paris but when she tried them in the US, she said the chickens themselves have no flavor, were bland, nothing compared to Parisian chickens. Maybe that's why people say everything tastes like chicken. Because chicken doesn't taste like much.
re: chowser
The first thing that comes to mind when I think Paris and chicken is BUTTER!
re: mnosyne
Yes--Julia Child uses quite a bit of butter in MtAoFC. It caught my eye as something I'll have to try when it's cooler.
Very interesting! For me, a really good roasted chicken is just about the best meal out there. If you're lucky, you might be able to get really good chicken in the U. S. -- you have to find someone who raises it themselves. I've been lucky enough to find a few of these, which I like to roast, breast side down, stuffed with bread and fresh herbs.
But 10 years ago I recall having a very good chicken from the market on the Avenue Richard-Lenoir. The vendor told me all the chickens were reserved, but eventually took pity on me and coughed up one rather mingy specimen, which was far, far tastier than any pre-prepared chicken I've ever had in this country.
Fantastic post indeed. Do you have any more detils on this venture soon to open in the 15th!?
After witnessing Julot in action (and tasting the result, OMG), my husband and I had to had to had to try.
Last week when we were in southwestern France, we saw in our fave market, in Villefranche de Rouergue, a farmer selling only half a dozen chickens and nothing else, with the kind of nice coloring and elasticity that only the freshest chickens can have. It must have been squawking only that morning.
We bought it, went home and worshipped it, then made it your way. Except that I remember you recommended stuffing it with foie gras. Foie gras practically grows on trees in that part of rthe sud-ouest, but I am too petit bourgeois to use it that way. We stuffed the bird with a country sausage with espelette pepper, in addition to the stuffed stuff that I saw you use.
The result would have done you proud, Maître, - where the skin was a separate tasty entity and inside the tenderest meat tasted as though the bird had been fed with all the right food forever, which it no doubt had been. As 3 women and a man moaned through the chicken, leaving only a shiny carcass for the next day's broth, it certainly took the sting out of les Bleus being kicked out of the World Cup in such a transcendentally pathetic way.
Thank you, Soup, again and again.
Interesting post indeed, as I was in Paris this weekend. It also caught my attention how expensive chickens are in Paris. I saw a Bresse chicken for 25 euro at our boucherie next to our hotel. The same chicken in Holland would also cost approximately 20 to 25 euro. I would have thought Paris would be cheaper though!
That said, you can see by the sheer variety of chickens on offer that Parisiens love their chickens. I can only dream of having such butchers in my neighbourhood.
I actually bought a roast chicken from a very busy local boucherie down rue brea, and it was excellent although on the dry side. But that's probably because I could only eat the bird after 5 hours or so.
Have heard of l'ami louis and am curious whether the 78 euro is for a whole chicken, so for two persons. Then it would be priced fair I guess. That said, I love the poularde roti at le comptoir du relais in the 6th, for 21 euro. It is one of the best chicken dishes I have ever eaten. Not dry roasted, but I think something of a cream is added later on as well as some rice. Pure excellence.
re: hae young
o yes, day and night. That is one of the most important part of Soup's advice, if not the most important. Go out of your way, go to the end of the earth to the best source. Believe me, it's worth it.
re: Parigi
A big difference is the large amount of water in store bought chicken. You will notice this if you are trying to fry the chicken, and out comes a lot of water. The result: you end up steaming your chicken which will make it soggy. Higher end chicken meanwhile can give you a nice browned and roasted chicken.
Hi Souphie,
Hopefully you will see this reply despite the fact it is several months since you posted the original post. I hear you on the chicken and wholeheartedly agree on the statement that the best chickens are to be found here in Paris. Your analysis of the whys reads like my endless rants to friends and family when we are in the US. It is by far the item we miss the most when in the states (yes before bread and pastry).
I used to have a rotisserie attachment here in my Paris oven, but alas no more.
I know you had more detailed instructions on non-spit chicken roasting on your blog, but now I can't seem to track it down (link on your profile does not work?). Could you elaborate or post the link to your blog? Specifically I would like to know what temp you recommend and some idea of timing (I know size of bird is a factor, but nonetheless...). I get the Cou Cous from Desnoyer. I seem to remember 180 oven, bird on one thigh for 15 min., then on the other for 15 min. then out of the oven for 10 and then back in on it's back for more time? But that doesn't seem like enough time... Also, do you truss? If so is it classic trussing w/ a needle? Or the non-needle trussing? What size pan to you use (specifically, how much larger than the bird itself, e.g. allowing 1, 2, or 3 cm between the bird and the side?),and how high are the sides? Is it metal or ceramic? Last but not least, is the bird on the bottom of the pan or on a rack?
Your feedback here would be **greatly** appreciated
I swear by Judy Rogers' (Zuni Cafe) method. You do need to start with a small or two small chickens. This is not a method for bigger birds. But it does turn out a crispy, well colored bird with very moist meat. http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/12/zun... I seldom bother to make the bread salad, which is delicious, but religiously use this method of roasting.
Here is one of my birds.
re: mangeur
Hello mangueur - I hope you come across this thread again! That looks delicious. The Zuni cookbook is one of my absolute favorites (as is Zuni, for that matter!), and this method is similar to the Thomas Keller method I usually use (found on Epicurious). I wonder if you have any advice in terms of treating one of the birds I will seek out when in Paris - is high heat still the way to go?
Found this thread while poking around the boards for Bell and Evans commiseration stories. Undoubtedly the best chicken I've bought and prepared in the US, but meh compared to even the not-so-special, much less AOC, little skinny backbone hens in your average Parisian market.
That said, I did splurge for the Poulet de Bresse once, and because my house kitchen advice-dispenser was out of town for the weekend, didn't know that they weren't particularly suited to roasting (I think the Internet probably told me so, but with a week left in Paris, I had to satisfy my fancy-chicken and crispy-skin cravings in one go, and ignored any challenges to this). Reflexively prepping it for dry-brining Zuni-style, I marveled at the thick layer of yellow fat all over the thing, not able to imagine what would happen to this fat in the oven. Well, the thing basically fried itself in its own fat. I drained it and stuck it back in the oven breast-side down to more evenly, uh, glisten the thing, made my bread salad, and made the mistake of allowing the boyfriend in the kitchen.
Crispy-skinned, moist, gently birdy tasting high. Bread salad saved for another night. When the kitchen-adviser returned, she was horrified and told me Bresse has to be braised for an eternity in milk, or something...? Next time, I guess.
re: pampelmuse
O! Get back on the horse. Roast another chicken tomorrow. Tonight!
re: Parigi
I'm going to reopen this old thread with a question for Souphie, or anyone else.
An old time dish I've never seen in a French restaurant is chicken with 40 cloves of garlic. Maybe it's too "home cooking" or old fashioned? To my friends in the US it is an unusual and delicious French dish.
Anyway, the question is what would be a good bird choice in Paris for this dish? It's roasted, but in a sealed casserole. Is it even worth using an expensive chicken?
re: RandyB
I actually don't think that this is an old-time recipe. I can't quite recall the name of the chef, but I somehow think that this is a recipe that was invented in the US -- maybe by a chef of French origin. I could be completely off here, but I have all but the details of this gnawing at m memory right now...
re: roxlet
I don't know for sure. However, I've seen it on French recipe websites referred to as a "classic" or a "Sunday dinner from my youth" recipe.
re: RandyB
My new best friend, the intern butcher at P. Dugast, in Marche de Passy continues to make great recommendations. Last weekend I asked for this very thing. Which is the best bird to roast? He reccommended the jeune coq. I roasted it on a vertical roaster. First it must be rubbed with either olive oil or butter. It really depends on my mood and what seasoning I will use. I start it in a high heat oven for 10 minutes then bring the heat
down to around 160 C for the last hour or so, about 20 minutes per pound.
Another time I took home a Coquelet. It was a perfect dinner for two. I roasted it, used butter this time and then basted it in the last ten minutes a with 1/4 cup of cream. Loved the crust it created. Yum. I also ordered my turkey form them, for Thanksgiving and it was better than any Canadian farmed raised, or Whole Food's bio/free range birds, I have had in North America. Tonight I will pprepare my Capon. Can't wait.
What I find interesting is that, with all the emphasis on heritage this meat or that, no one has really done much with chicken. I'm surprised that there isn't an enterprising farmer somewhere in th US producing this French birds in the way they're produced in France. I guess that there isn't the same amount of respect as there is for other poultry, like turkey, or other meats.
re: roxlet
Take a look at
It's sort of good news, bad news, but does have a lot of explanation about chicken breeds in the US.
But, roxlet, I have to agree with you anyway. I'm thinking of many friends who raise chickens. They all do it organically (though not necessarily certified), really free range, etc. But they, too, limit their outlook on breed choices.
re: RandyB
Interesting -- but this also looks like a web site that hasn't been updated since 2008!
We have been following Souphie's instructions and experimenting with roasting different chicken species from our Ultimate Chicken Guy Marcel (his stand keeps the old name "Toutoune") from Marché St Quentin in Paris.
So far we have roasted: coucou de Rennes, Bresse, Challan, La Géline de Touraine. We are esp fond of Challan and Géline.
During our xmas-new year holiday in Nice, we discovered from the wonwderful poultry butcher's in the old town La Poulette the awesome poulet de Tarn. So good we got it twice.
I encourage everyone to rent a place with kitchen instead of staying in a hotel on your next trip to France. The markets are a big part of the enjoyment of the French lifestyle. Besides, you will not have to eat out twice a day. Even if you have unlimited budget, eating out twice a day is a tiring and touristy thing to do.
One last thing: the smaller the bird the better, it seems.
re: Parigi
And here you are! I don't know why I didn't come here first. One question - how hot is your oven, and without a spit, what vessel do you recommend?
re: saticoy
I use a stainless poultry, standing roasting frame. I found it in the South off France 30 years ago.
re: picardsvintagelady
Merci - I am going in June, and will assess the kitchen in my rented apartment, and perhaps augment with something I can easily take home. If I am going to splurge on a costly small bird, I better get it right!


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Nintendo Wii price plummets below £100
The price of the Nintendo Wii plunged today, with some retailers pushing the price of a bundle under the £100 mark. With Nintendo's next console sure to hit shelves in 2012, the price-cut was inevitable. It was reported earlier this month that from 20 May, new bundles would be available and £50 would be slashed from the current …
That might be enough to tempt me
At under a hundred quid
it's definitely worth it. It's now less than a tank of petrol!
The games are good fun, the controllers can be bluetoothed to your PC (with a bit of faffing about, anyway), and- again- it's relatively cheap. Plus it's got a web browser and WiFi so if you don't want to fire up your PC to, say, check your email you can do it right on your TV.
If you have a HDTV
don't, just don't - it looks awful. The reason I bought a PS3 (yes, yes, I know) was to actually make use of the HDTV I had, the wii looked like I was trying to use a Spectrum 48K on a cinema screen.
Hopefully the next one will be nicely HD (I think I saw it in the spec somewhere) and backwards compatible. Here's hoping...
I thought everyone who wanted one had one?
As title
Every one of them
gathering dust. Wii was a throwaway gimmick purchase that gets wheeled out at Xmas and then sits gathering dust for the rest of the year. It's supporting software sucked REALLY badly outside 1st party titles.
I wouldn't waste £49 on one, let alone £99.
It's time the media woke up to this.
I just sold my wii for £80 a couple of months back and I am glad I did!
Frankly the kinect that my mrs got me for Christmas makes it look positively stone age. I really can't see myself going for a wii 2 either unless they can make something much out performs kinect.
Just about low enough...
... to persuade me to replace the PS1 I currently have in the caravan for the kids.
@ Shaun 1
You can have mine for £95. It's not been switched on for 6 months.
Most games play better on a PC
Yes, using dolphin the Wii emulator you can play games in 1080 even faster than the wii.
Can't see Kinect lasting 5 years...
Both gimmicks, but at least the Wii had some impressive games that utilised the control method.
Waving your arms around will get boring (and tiring) very quickly.
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'The perfect camping spot for me, without question, is down in Liwa, around 50km from Hamim village. With 200m sand dunes as a backdrop, no light or noise pollution and no tyre tracks, it is absolutely idyllic. You immediately feel relaxed and totally mesmerised by the scenery, which looks as though somebody has painted it on a big canvas. 'This part of the desert is very clean, which makes a welcome change. My spot is actually around 35km into Liwa, so you don't tend to get many day trippers in the area, hence the lack of rubbish.
'There are also some great driving routes in the immediate area. The nearest point of interest is the Liwa Oasis and Moreeb Hill, which will take a good five or six hours. There's a fantastic motor museum on the road down to Hamim, which people should visit. It's owned by the 'Rainbow Sheikh' – Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family. Though opening times are a bit hit or miss, there are some mad vehicles to see. It's free to get in and a good break on the journey down.
'Apart from the normal reptiles, such as the sand monitor and other lizards, I have seen a sand cat and desert gazelle out there, which were both real treats. Though they are not in abundance they can sometimes be spotted around that area.'
Directions: 'Head towards Abu Dhabi and Hamim village – it will take about two and a half hours to get there. A few kilometres after you've been through Hamim, you will see a petrol station on the left. A couple of kilometres further on you will spot a fairly wide track.
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