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Article: BEYOND NIBBLES AND NOSHES; If it's Shabbat, its got to be chicken
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- Washington Jewish Week
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- February 9, 2006
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The tradition of chicken dinner for Shabbat goes back to the early Eastern European Jews, who would make every effort to have a chicken for the Sabbath. Wives used every part of the chicken, making soup from the bones, an aspic -- called p'tcha -- from the feet, pate from the liver and gizzards, kishke in the chicken neck skin and schmaltz, or chicken fat, from the skin and fat. Nothing was wasted and the chicken meals lasted throughout the Sabbath and on into the week.
The chicken tradition crossed the ocean with the new Jewish immigrants, who found that they could continue their traditions in the New World.
My grandmother followed these traditions and used every part of the chicken every ...