How the Chicken Conquered the World

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Peng
________ moved to New York in 1973 to open a restaurant that became a favorite of diplomats and began cooking his signature dish.
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masala sauce
The ________ was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy . "
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genome map
The ________ provided an excellent opportunity to study how millennia of domestication can alter a species.
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Factory
________ farming represents the chickens final step in its transformation into a protein- producing commodity.
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Old Testament
The ________ passages concerning ritual sacrifice reveal a distinct preference on the part of Yahweh for red meat over poultry.
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Archaeologists
________ have recovered chicken bones from Lothal, once a great port on the west coast of India, raising the possibility that the birds could have been carried across to the Arabian Peninsula as cargo or provisions.
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Europeans
________ arriving in North America found a continent teeming with native turkeys and ducks for the plucking and eating.
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Recent research
________ suggests that modern chickens inherited at least one trait, their yellow skin, from the gray junglefowl of southern India.
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Cock
________) was a universal signifier of virility- but also, in the ancient Persian faith of Zoroastrianism, a benign spirit that crowed at dawn to herald a turning point in the cosmic struggle between darkness and light.
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scenario
Either ________ is possible, but probing more deeply into chicken origins is hindered by an inconclusive DNA trail.
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Modern chickens
________ are cogs in a system designed to convert grain into protein with staggering efficiency.
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chain
The ________ has thrived by offering the Chinese customers food they were already familiar with, including (depending on the region) noodles, rice and dumplings, along with chicken wraps, chicken patties and chicken wings, which are so popular, Shelman says, that the company periodically has to deny rumors it has a farm somewhere that raises six- winged chickens.
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Chicken
________ is the ubiquitous food of our era, crossing multiple cultural boundaries with ease.
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Egyptians
The ________ constructed vast incubation complexes made up of hundreds of "ovens ..
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great event
The ________ took place in the early 1970s in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow, according to a Scottish MP who urged the European Union to grant the dish a "protected designation of origin ..
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Numerous reasons
________ have been advanced for this success, from the cleanliness of the restrooms to the alleged resemblance of Colonel Sanders to Confucius, but it apparently does not reflect a newfound Chinese appetite for the cuisine of the American mid- South.
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Whitacre
________ was surprised to see whole frozen Silkies, which each weigh only about a pound and a half, selling for more than $ 10 in her local Asian market.
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mutation
The ________ disabling this gene enables chickens to breed- and lay eggs- all year long.
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Chicken tikka
What is an Indian dish? Answer with a single words or term.
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