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"It\u2019s something of a family joke that, whenever any of my siblings asks what I\u2019m cooking for supper, it\u2019s this. It\u2019s less a recipe than a blueprint for life. There are few things that can\u2019t be made better by a chicken roasting in the oven, and those that are impervious are beyond any intervention.\n\nThis is how my mother roasted her chickens, and I expect it\u2019s how my children will do theirs. The buttery lemony waft through the house is, for me, the smell of home. And there\u2019s something about that simple bird, that iconic form with its crispy skinned curves and kitchen-filling aroma that makes it the elemental and perfect, unbeatable feast.\n\nI do everything in my power to get a proper, free-range and, more important, organically reared chicken, but this makes even something flaccid, pallid and fed spooky things throughout its tortured existence bearable to eat, from a gastronomic viewpoint at least.\n\nWhen it\u2019s the end of a working day, it is so much easier to make a supper that relies more or less entirely on oven-cooked stuff (I can manage to open a jar of French petits pois (peas) and heat them on the stove). Really, it\u2019s about having a proper dinner without having to be in the kitchen constantly to prepare it. Left to my own devices I am always happy in the kitchen, but the natural everyday havoc and exigencies of life don\u2019t always allow it. So I can make this regardless of bathtime or homework and whatever else brings the ceiling down lower in the evening."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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