Guitar String Chicken with Samin Nosrat

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My name is Samin Nosrat.

I am a cook, I am always up for an adventure.

And that's a big reason I love cooking on the farm.

It's a hundred rocky acres that my friends

Sarah and Eric bought,

and I helped them very slowly restoring

and taking care of.

I always think about what are the static sort

of anchors in a menu that I can't change,

and for what I can't change at the farm is the kitchen.

I know I have to cook over fire,

so how do I make the most use

of all of the different sort of stages of a fire?

And I remember this story of how before I even began

to cook and I was hanging out with my friend Melissa,

and her dad, who is just this crazy wacky guy

had just watched some Food Network episode

where some chef had set up a jerry-rigged spit almost

in front of his home fireplace.

Since her dad didn't even have half

of the stuff that the guy on the show had used,

he totally just made it up as he went along

and threaded a chicken on a guitar string

and hung it from his golf club in front of the fire.

An hour and a half later,

the moistest, most tender chicken emerged.

So we sort of just called it Guitar String Chicken,

it was the funniest thing.

So I was like, maybe I'll make Guitar String

Chicken at the farm.

(laughing)

I always want to wow people with

an idea that sort of beauty of cooking

in that fire pit is that everyone's gathered around

with their drinks and everyone's watching

and everyone's sort of part of it,

and they're smelling the smoke

and they're seeing it,

and it's just this very sensual experience

for everyone, everyone gets to be involved.

And all of these different things we're doing all at once

to make a really beautiful multi-layered meal

and make it as delicious as we possibly can.

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