he didnt explain why the restaurant was out of roast chickens or direct this guy to some other place where he could obtain a roast chicken , but instead tried to instruct this guy in how he could prepare his own roast chicken by describing in a bit more detail -- and with more feeling , certainly , than the situation warranted -- the method of chicken roasting his mother had used when he was a boy back in lebanon or india or wherever the hell he was from , which seemed to take place outside in a garden and involve quite a bit of basting .