Urban Cannibals to bring back Two-Chicks brunch special

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The two human rights activists rallied last week to respond to Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy’s recently published views on “the biblical definition of the family unit,” marriage and his fried chicken’s emporium’s unwavering corporate commitment to remaining betrothed to your first wife.

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Chick-fil-A president joins Atlanta’s rich history of fried chicken and bigots

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Lester Maddox opened Pickrick’s Cafeteria in 1947, a fried chicken joint that eventually became known the owner’s vocal opposition to racial integration. “His fame spread in 1964, when he and his followers brandished red pick handles—known as “Pickrick Drumsticks”—at black people who approached his business,” noted our 50th anniversary issue. Later, shamefully, he became the governer of Georgia and Randy Newman wrote a great, complicated song that was sort of about him. (That song is, more accurately, about the way that South so often becomes a scapegoat for discussions about nationwide bigotry in the United States, but that’s for an entirely different discussion.)

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Photograph of Dan Cathy courtesy of Chick-fil-A

Lance Gummere to join Shaun Doty at Bantam and Biddy

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For those who know a little about the two chefs, the announcement couldn’t have made more sense. Both hail from rural Oklahoma, Gummere was known as Doty’s right hand man during the years that Doty helmed a couple four-star dining destinations, and they just happen to be brother-in-laws.

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Here’s your chance to try a real chicken

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Georgians for Pastured Poultry—a collective of farmers, chefs, environmentalist and animal rights groups, and concerned individuals launched this year—has named this Pastured Poultry Week. Judging by the rate of participation by popular area chefs, this fledgling organization is demonstrating both its influence and the growing public demand for its namesake product.

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Activists, entrepreneurs seek poultry options

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That’s right. The only poultry processing plants operating in Georgia are the ones that kill enough birds per year—upward of 100,000 but more often in the millions—to cover the costs associated with stringent state food-safety and wastewater-disposal rules as well federal requirements for USDA on-site inspection of each and every bird slaughtered. The little guys, the ones who only want to raise and safely process fewer than 20,000 birds a year (the federal threshold for USDA oversight) have no in-state, let alone on-farm, options.

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Photograph courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture

Julia LeRoy on the closing of LeRoy’s Fried Chicken

I was there a few weeks back and loved the sheer, much-thinner batter, the vividly seasoned (but not salty) potato salad that replaced the iffy mac and cheese, the fluffier biscuit, and the smoky greens. We were planning to give the newcomer a Best Of award in our December issue (in production this week), I liked it that much better.

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Cover of the Day: July 1980

Chicken! I think we can all agree that it’s about time we redid this service package.