[conspire] Recipe for Roast Chicken with Saffron and Cinnamon

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> What's for dinner?  For starters, I'm making this spectacular and
> delicious baked chicken dish (2nd time cooked, first for CABAL):
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/recipes/roast-chicken-with-saffron-and-cinnamon.html

A few things about that.  1.  Proud volunteer chef Kirby at a Sons of
Norway event I recently attended in the Sierra Nevada made this dish for
about 80 of us.  And he used real saffron -- $70 worth!

2. As mentioned in the recipe Web page, I'm cheap and sub-in turmeric
with a bit of paprika.  Also good.  Maybe with saffron it's better, but 
we're not doing a comparison, sorry.

3. Weirdly, the recipe's from mediaeval Iceland, not the place or time
you normally associate with two exotic spices from far away tropical
places.  So, WTF?  Ostentation, apparently.  Even 14th C. Iceland had a
"1%" who enjoyed showing off.

4.  I include tips I hope are helpful, like, dude, there are better
and cheaper things than bouillon cubes, and that true cinnamon is 
better than generic supermarket stuff.  And that the recipe does great
with gluten-free flour.  Links are included to Penzey's as a broad hint
about where to get herbs and spices.


As I've stressed in this space before, there's huge potential for
sharing good food receipes as CC-licensed "open content" -- as with my
modest but growing collection at http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/recipes/

Recipes from elsewhere, no matter how dire the copyright warnings, _can_
lawfully be republished/adapted freely -- as long as you're careful
about (a) photos/artwork, and (b) any accompanying text not integral to
the recipe proper.  A _recipe_ is inherently public domain, but those
other things are proprietary by default.

In order to clarify this matter for laymen, on each recipe page, I
explain the provenance and licensing of everything on/with the page,
and publicly thank the creators.  (The latter isn't legally required,
but is good manners.)

Anyway, please share and enjoy the recipe (and its URL), and encourage
others to keep sharing it.