Will A Chicken That's Fed Lemons Taste Like Lemons?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 12:00 in Mathematics & Economics

A Chicken's Face Mollie Kotzen     A recent New York Times story looked into the high-end chicken market. These are chickens in stark contrast to factory chickens, fed with produce that's out of the price range of most humans. David Burke, one of New York City's most prominent chefs (he runs Fishtail, David Burke Townhouse, David Burke Kitchen, and several others, was a contestant on Top Chef Masters, and, um, has a line of flavor sprays), chimed in with this head-scratcher:   "Listen, if the chickens ate ginger and lemon, you would have a gingery, lemony chicken, I think."   A ginger-lemon chicken sounds fantastic! But, um, wait a second. Is that scientifically possible?   * * *   Basic question first: does what you eat affect your flavor? (Using "you" here is kind of odd, assuming that you don't intend to be eaten later. Anyway!) The answer is,...

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