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Non-Music Shit / Re: regional cuisine
« on: July 19, 2008, 07:22:26 AM »
Chicken booyah!
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A super ?stick to your ribs? soup-stew made with chicken. While chicken soup is universal and variations of this dish can be found in many cultures world wide, northeastern Wisconsin is the only place in the world where Chicken Booyah is found. It is a favorite at the many festivals, church picnics, bazaars, and any other large gathering in the northeast part of Wisconsin. This chicken soup is typically made in large 10 or 20-gallon batches, cooked outdoors over a wood fire, and worked on by several people at once. Restaurants have their own special recipe. Booyah is lovingly called ?Belgian Penicillin.?
The name Booyah likely originated in Green Bay, WI, by the booyah "pioneer" Andrew Rentmeester around 1905. In an article of the Green Bay Press-Gazette dated October 29, 1976, it reads:
Lester (Rentmeester) relates recollections of his schoolteacher father, Andrew, probably the "pioneer" of the chicken booyah supper. "At the old Finger Road School where he taught, funds were always in short supply," he recalls. "So my father hit on the idea of a community picnic to raise money for the school. He went around to parents and neighbors, gathering up beef and chickens for the traditional Belgian soup that would be the main dish at the benefit affair. And he also went down to the office of the old Green Bay Gazette, looking for publicity." The writer handling the news of the benefit picnic, so the story goes, asked what would be served. "Bouillon ? we will have bouillon," came the reply, with the word pronounced properly in French. "The young reporter wrote it down as he heard it," Rentmeester relates. "It came out 'booyah' in the paper. It was booyah the first time it was served at Holy Martyrs of Gorcum Church ? an affair my father also originated -- and that's what people have called it ever since."
The traditional stew is still made in Northeastern Wisconsin at church picnics and county fairs. At some of these events, Booyah-making contests occur, in which local masters of booyah-making compete to make the best tasting bowl of booyah.
I'll forward yr Space to 'em and tell them you wanna set something up.
