A chicken’s gizzard is a small organ that helps it digest food—far from glamorous, yes, but gizzards are valued in cuisines around the world. They cost less per pound than most any other cut of ...

Cooks in the know understand that, before they roast a store-bought chicken or turkey, they need to remove a curious little bag that's nearly always stuffed inside the bird. Collectively, the little ...

Gizzards are organs found in the digestive tracts of some animals, including archosaurs, earthworms, gastropods, some fish, and some insects. Unless you’re a paleontologist, you may be wondering, ...

Some people are very partial to the firm, bouncy texture of this muscular second stomach where food is broken down. In some Asian countries, cooks have to skin and clean the gizzards before cooking as ...

Admittedly, chicken gizzards aren’t everyone’s idea of a pleasing appetizer. You don’t want to even think about what part of a chicken the gizzard is (mostly muscle, it’s the organ that helps the ...

Jeffrey Sills’s reaction when he heard about his assigned ingredient, he said, was “What the hell is a gizzard?” He’d never eaten them before and said they “kind of sounded gross.” As Blair Herridge ...

This week: Chicken Gizzards served up by Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles. The Ick Factor: People fear what they do not know, and most have only a passing acquaintance with gizzards. Gizzards are muscular ...