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America loves chicken, and Foster Farms has been there to put one in every pot since 1939. Foster was a senior vice president and co-owner of the chicken farm founded by his father. He became chief executive after his older brother Paul died of a heart attack in 1977. After more than a decade in the top seat, he scaled back his involvement to devote more time to outside interests, especially in auto racing. Foster started Tracer Racing, which designs and races sports cars, and drove to victory in more than 200 races. Meanwhile, Foster Farms has grown to a billion-dollar company, ranking 207th on Forbes magazine's list of the U.S.'s Top 500 privately held companies. He died September 22 from complications of diabetes. He was 49. From This is True for 26 September 1999 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Sam Zien List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $12.89 Editorial Review: "'I can't cook,' I hear that all the time. And it's not that you can't--it's that you don't. It's that we've been wrecked by cooking shows with their millions of complicated steps and crazy-ass ingredients. Ingredients you can't find, let alone pronounce. That's not how I want to cook. I want to eat well, but I don't want it to take a year. Who's making stuff like 'Truffled Peruvian Mountain Squab with Chilled Framboise Foam' anyway? "So this book is about food that's big in taste and small in effort. Just great-tasting stuff with no fancy techniques and definitely no over-the-top ingredients, as in everything-comes-from-a-regular-supermarket--cool concept, huh? It's just a bunch of recipes you'll easily be able to make and enjoy." --From Sam the Cooking Guy Look inside for great recipes like these: * Cinnamon Pull-Apart * French Toast Mountain * One Dank Tomato Pie * "Whatever" Spring Rolls * Five-Minute Stir-Fry Noodles * O.F.R.B.P.J.G.O. * Awww Nuts! * BBQ Chicken Pizza * Halloween Chicken Chili * Fridge Fried Rice * Sam's Sticky Sweet BBQ Ribs * Stuffed Burgers * Pesto BBQ Shrimp * Chili Salmon * Motor Home Meatballs * Spicy-ish Sausage Pasta * The Great Potato Cake * Brussels Sprouts You'll Actually Eat * (Fake) Creme Brulee * Chocolate Toffee Matzoh * Peanut Butter Ice-Cream Cup Things  By: Steven Raichlen List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $10.36 Editorial Review: Chicken on a beer can? You bet! When Steven Raichlen, America's barbecue guru, says it's the best grilled chicken he's ever tasted, cooks stop and listen. An essential addition to every grill jockey's library, Beer-Can Chicken presents 75 must-try beer-can variations and other offbeat recipes for the grill. Recipes such as Saigon Chicken with Lacquered Skin and Spicy Peanut Sauce, Root Beer Game Hens, Beer-Can Turkey (uses the 32-ounce Foster's), Stoned Chicken (it's grilled under a brick), Dirty Steak, Fish on a Board (Salmon with Brown Sugar Glaze), Mussels Eclade-grilled under pine needles, Grilled Eggs, Wacky Rumaki, Rotisseried Garlic Rolls-even Grilled Yellow Pepper Soup will have your mouth-watering. Whether on a can, on a stick, under a brick, in a leaf, on a plank, or in the embers, each grilling technique is explained in easy-to-follow steps, with recipes that guarantee no matter how crazy the technique, the results are always outstanding. So pop a cold one and have fun. Steven Raichlen's Beer-Can Chicken tells everything one should ever need to know about roasting a chicken upright on top of a can of beer. For those who find that premise strange or silly (Raichlen, in fact, thanks his publisher for being "wacky enough" to produce the book), the author describes beer-can chicken as "the perfect bird, crackly crisp, succulent within ... the most flavorful chicken you've ever tasted." Raichlen's goal is to encourage grillers to have fun and use their imagination, and he presents 74 "offbeat recipes" as starting points. Notable selections include Beer-Can Turkey, which requires a giant 32-ounce can of Foster's to do the job; Welder's Chicken, a stewing hen wrapped in aluminum foil and turned with welder's gloves; Dirty Steaks, cooked right on the coals; and Diabolical Chicken, soaked with spicy French mustard and which Raichlen makes "whenever I'm short on time or fancy ingredients but want to impress the hell out of my guests." There are also recipes for "beerless birds" (Ginger Ale Chicken, Black Cherry Soda Chicken), side dishes, and desserts, as well as info on grilling techniques and equipment. A chicken straddling a beer can, at the very least, makes a great conversation piece at an outdoor beer bash. Raichlen's most helpful hint? Make sure the beer can is open before putting it on the grill. --Andy Boynton  By: Rhonda Lauret ParkinsonRhonda Lauret Parkinson List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $10.17 Editorial Review: From Wonton soup to Sweet and Sour Chicken, 300 succulent recipes from the Far East.  By: Christopher Styler List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $12.21 Editorial Review: Get that great taste of wood-smoked food using the top of your kitchen stove. Contains everything you need to know about smoking foods at home, using a stovetop smoker. Chris serves up 36 master recipes for smoking everything from whole chickens to shrimp, plus 95 recipes for soups, salads, and sides that use smoked ingredients. There's Tea-Smoked Duck; Smoked Eggplant Soup; and Fettuccine with Smoky Salmon, Peas, and Leeks to name just a few. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your love for smoky flavor. With Chris Styler's tips, techniques, and pointers, smoking food is simple, fast, and the taste speaks for itself. Smokin' -- it's well, smokin'.  By: Monica Bhide List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $10.17 Editorial Review: Indian cuisine constitutes the exotic blend of flavors from the Himalayas in the North to the Eastern Bay of Bengal. Featuring hundreds of recipes, such as Indian-Style Coleslaw, Rice Pudding, and Indian Corn Flatbread, The Everything® Indian Cookbook guides readers through preparing delicious Indian cuisine right in their own homes. From basic Indian flavors and spices to Indian cooking methods and meals, The Everything® Indian Cookbook offers a diverse set of recipes perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters. 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