Five Recipes for Roast Chicken
Atlantic, The, April, 2006
The Zuni Cafe Cookbook, by Judy Rodgers (Norton).
The bird is seasoned for several days, a step that can be cut down to overnight for pasture-raised chicken. The precisely described cooking times and visual cues are very useful, and an accompanying bread salad, dressed with drippings, makes any meal a holiday.
Bistro Cooking at Home, by Gordon Hamersley and Joanne McAllister Smart (Broadway Books).
A recipe that helped make the reputation of Hamersley’s Bistro, in Boston: chicken coated with a mustard-garlic-herb marinade, roasted, and run under the broiler at the last minute, then topped with lemon slices and served with roasted garlic cloves.
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, by Marcella Hazan (Knopf).
My default method: stick two smallish lemons, well punctured, ...