Savory Stuff

Ina Garten makes Coq au Vin, a French chicken and wine dish with mushrooms and bacon. She begins by chopping up four ounces of bacon and cooking it until crisp. She had a butcher cut a whole chicken into 10 pieces, which she liberally seasons with salt and pepper. She removes the cooked bacon from the pan using a slotted spoon so she can brown the chicken in the bacon fat remaining. She browns a few pieces at a time, noting that if you overfill the pan, you end up steaming the chicken instead