Friday, February 22, 2019

Delany Chicken salad

With a ton of cooked chicken left over from making stock here is another easy recipe. This is dedicated to An LGBT Hero, Samuel Delany. Read about this writer in a short article after this recipe.


This quick and easy chicken salad uses cooked chicken with onion, celery, mayonnaise and honey mustard. An added surprise is the bright taste of dried cranberries.



Ingredients:
4 cups cooked chicken
1 stalk celery, cut into ¼-inch dice
¼ cup sweet onion chopped
2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
1 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon honey mustard
2 teaspoons salt
pepper to taste
½ cup dried cranberries


Directions:
Do your cutting: Chop the onion,

 dice the celery


chop up the leaves of parsley


In a large bowl mix together the chicken onion, celery, and parsley.

Stir together the mayonnaise, lemon juice, honey mustard, salt & pepper. In a large bowl mix together the dressing with the chicken & vegetables. Stir in the cranberries. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate to blend the flavors until ready to serve
You could also use seedless grapes in place of cranberries.


What a lively way to put left over chicken to good use.

Honored to be serving my Master Indy

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Samuel R. Delany


An author, professor and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism and essays on sexuality and society.
This multiple award winning writer was born in Harlem in 1942.

The civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany were his aunts. He used their adventures as the basis for Elsie and Corry in "Atlantis: Model 1924", the opening novella in his semi-autobiographical collection Atlantis: Three Tales. His grandfather, Henry Beard Delany, was the first black Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Delany and poet Marilyn Hacker met on their first day together in high school in September 1956, and were married five years later, due to her pregnancy (which later miscarried). Their marriage (which alternatively encompassed periods of cohabitation and separation, experiments in polyamory, and extramarital affairs with men and women conducted by both parties) endured for 14 years.

Delany has identified as gay since adolescence, though his complicated marriage with Hacker (who was aware of Delany's orientation and has identified as a lesbian since their divorce) has led some authors to classify him as bisexual.

Chip, as his friends called him, become a published science fiction author by the age of 20, though he actually finished writing that first novel (The Jewels of Aptor) while at 19, shortly after dropping out of the City College of New York after one semester.

He published nine well-regarded science fiction novels between 1962 and 1968, as well as prize-winning short stories.

In 1966, with his wife remaining in New York, Delany took an extended trip to Europe, writing in France, England, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
After returning, Delany played and lived communally for six months on the Lower East Side with the Heavenly Breakfast, a folk-rock band.

Delany published his first eight novels with Ace Books from 1962 to 1967, culminating in Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection, which were consecutively recognized as the year's best novel by the Science Fiction Writers of America (Nebula Awards).

Delany and Hacker lived in Marylebone, London. In 1972, Delany was a visiting writer at Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. During this period, he began working with sexual themes in earnest and wrote two pornographic works, one of which (Hogg) was unpublishable due to its transgressive content. Twenty years later, it found print.

Delany's eleventh and most popular novel, the million-plus-selling Dhalgren, was published in 1975 to both literary acclaim and derision from both inside and outside the science fiction community. Upon its publication, Delany returned to the United States at the behest of Leslie Fiedler to teach at the University at Buffalo in the spring of 1975.


Delany became a professor in 1988. With visiting fellowships at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the University at Albany and Cornell University. He spent 11 years as a professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a year and a half as an English professor at the University at Buffalo, then moved to the English Department of Temple University in 2001, where he taught until his retirement in 2015.

In 1991, Delany entered a committed, nonexclusive relationship with Dennis Rickett, previously a homeless book vendor. His courtship is chronicled in the graphic memoir Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York.

It was in 1971 that Delany began dealing with sexual themes to an extent rarely equaled in serious writing. Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand include several sexually explicit passages, and several of his books such as Equinox, The Mad Man, Hogg and, Phallos can be considered pornography, a label Delany himself endorses.

Phallos is about the quest for happiness and security by a gay man from the island of Syracuse in the second-century reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Dark Reflections is a contemporary novel, dealing with themes of repression, old age, and the writer's unrewarded life.

He has stated that he believes to leave out the sexual practices in his writing would limit the dialog children and adults can have about it themselves, and that this lack of knowledge can kill people.

Delany grew up at a time when science fiction was gee-whiz futurism, machismo adventuring, and white, heterosexual heroes. From the beginning, Delany, pushed across those boundaries, embraced the other, and questioned received ideas about sex and intimacy. He has won some of the field’s biggest awards.


Delany’s career now spans more than half a century, dozens of novels and short stories, many of which have challenged what science fiction could or should be. Even now, when graphic sex and challenging themes are hardly unusual, Delany’s raw sexuality and his explorations of race within science fiction have the power to startle.
Surely a hero by any standards and one not limited to a “African-American” nor “LGBT” definition.

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