there use to be a big mkt. in china for us made chicken feet. don't know if it still exists but bet it does.
my wife loves fried gizzards. i'm not so positive on them as she is. i like the liver (offal?).
i like a chicken stock made with a big bundle of herbs along with the chicken.
It's sorta weird how much Jews and Chinese like the discarded parts, even though there's a huge disconnect in how they love pork and we won't touch it. I love gizzards that are either fried, left under a duck or chicken on a roasting rack and allowed to cook in the drippings as the bird cooks or boiled low and slow over the course of a couple days in stock. When we were kids, everyone called the gizzards "pipyks" and claimed that it was the belly button of the chicken. We knew chickens didn't have belly buttons, but we also thought our folks were trying to get us to eat chicken testicles by calling them belly buttons. When we learned that it was a stomach and not balls, we were all in.
