Brines flavor fried chicken all the way into the meat, so un-brined birds will taste bland and, often, dry. You’ll really only taste whatever seasoning is in the crust. Not good.

If your fried chicken's breading falls off as you eat, or it's simply not as crunchy as you want, this simple dredging method ...

The name of a chicken dish can change and, in so doing, say much about the time it came from. That was the case with gong bao ji ding, the Chinese chicken dish with peanuts, named after the late ...

And fried chicken — as many a person standing in front of an open fridge chomping down on a drumstick can tell you — is good pretty much anytime, anywhere. Make it tonight. Make it this weekend.