Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: rooster

  • Coq au Vin

    This is one of my favorite dishes on earth.  “Cock in Wine” is the translation…a mean, tough, stringy old rooster slowly braised in red wine.  It has become a French classic, but it arose from humble farmhouses, rather than sophisticated bistros.  I grew up eating dry, tough old roosters.  And any time a rooster attacked…