Chicken: A chicken is a young farmed gallinaceous (*), male or female, with tender flesh, white or slightly yellow fat depending on the diet; the latter determines the flavor of the poultry, slaughtered between 6 and 13 weeks. Chicken was introduced to Greece by the Persians (**). It experienced a long eclipse in the Middle Ages (when people mainly ate hens, pullets and capons) and only reappeared in the XNUMXth century. It is now in recipes all over the world...
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