Engagement chicken
Engagement Chicken is a roast chicken recipe, purported to cause boyfriends to propose marriage.
Origin
The dish was developed by Kim Bonnell a fashion editor at Glamour Magazine following a trip to Italy[1]. In 1982, Bonnell gave the recipe to co-worker Kathy Suder to prepare for her boyfriend and soon afterwards, the couple was engaged. The recipe made the rounds in the office and soon three other women in the office were offered marriage proposals soon after making the dish for their boyfriends.
In 2003, after Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive heard that wedding proposals followed making the recipe, dubbed the recipe "Engagement Chicken" and ran the recipe in the magazine in December 2003[2]. Soon afterwards the magazine began receiving letters from women claiming that their boyfriends proposed shortly after being served the dish. The magazine claims 70 couples have married after the women served their boyfriends the dish[3]
In the Media
The month the recipe appeared in Glamour Beth Ostrosky fixed the dish for her boyfriend, shock jock Howard Stern. The next day, Stern who had sworn off marring again, described the dish on air to the amusement of his co-hosts who claimed that the "trap had been set." A caller called in and said the dish he described appeared in a recent edition of Glamour and told him the dish the name of the dish and how it got its name. Stern called Ostrosky on air. Ostrosky claimed that she wanted to fix the dish because it looked so simple, but told how romantic Stern became while eating the dinner[4]. Two years later the Stern and Ostrosky wed[5].
The recipe has also been featured on the Today Show[6], Martha[7] and Barefoot Contessa[8]
Notes
- ^ "How to Make Engagement Chicken. Glamour Magazine 10 July 2006
- ^ Jennifer D'Angelo. "Want a Rock? Get Your Chicken ON". FoxNews. 5 Jun3 2005
- ^ 70 Couples and Counting (video). Glamour.com. (undated).
- ^ "Howard Stern: Beth Cooks Engagement Chicken" (video). YouTube. (undated)
- ^ Dana Schuster. The Recipe That will Make Him Propose!". New York Post 30 March 2011
- ^ Want to Put a Ring on It? Make This 'Engagement Chicken' (video). Today Show. 5 April 2011.
- ^ Cindi Levie and Martha Stewart. "Engagement Chicken". Martha. (undated).
- ^ Ina Garten. "Chicken 101". The Barefoot Contessa. Food Network 2009.
External Link
- Engagement Chicken Recipe from Glamour