poussin

Very young chicken

A poussin is a young chicken slaughtered at four to six weeks old, smaller and more tender than a standard broiler.

The French term appears on menus and in culinary contexts where it sounds more appetizing than "baby chicken": Each guest received their own roasted poussin.

One poussin typically serves a single person.

painter

Nicolas

Greek name, triumph-related

Louvre · canvas · oil · landscape · mythology · religious · composition · chiaroscuro · Arcadia · pastoral

culinary

roast

Dry-heat cooking method

garlic · thyme · rosemary · baste · crispy · golden · rotisserie · carve · tender · juicy

chick

hatchling

Recently emerged young

peep · down · feathers · incubation · clutch · hen · cheeping · fluff · beak · winglet

French

Paris

France's chief city

  • FranceWestern European republic
  • MatisseFrench fauvism founder
  • MonetFrench Impressionist surname

Renoir · Degas · Seurat · Cézanne · Gauguin · Manet · Delacroix · Courbet · atelier

Opposites
poultry maturity/age

poussinhen

Female fowl

rooster · cock · laying hen · capon · cockerel

culinary portion size

poussinturkey

Wattled North American fowl

whole turkey · goose · capon · ostrich · emu

ARTISTIC STYLE (for Nicolas Poussin)

poussinRubens

Baroque Flemish painter

Caravaggio · Rembrandt · Delacroix · Fragonard · Turner

Family

poultry, pullet

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