Auden Memorial Stew

This is a version of Brunswick stew, popular in the American South.

North Carolina natives have been known for this concoction, thick and tomato based, using chicken chunks.

Traditionally stews are cooked with what is called a “mirepoix”: three vegetables consisting of: onions, celery, and carrots. Over the centuries chiefs have found this combination always turns out well.

However in this stew we are using a mix of corn, tomatoes, and beans. A bit different but what a surprising taste. Here we honor a LGBT poet of the 20^th century: Wystan Hugh Auden. Read his story after the recipe.

A nice stew of chicken, tomatoes, corn and beans. A great slow cooker recipe that makes an entire meal while you have other things planed.

Ingredients

• 2 large onions, chopped
• 4 slices bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 
• 5 chicken thighs boneless-skinless cut into bite sized pieces
• 1 (15-ounce) can cream-style corn
• 1 (15 oz) can stewed tomatoes
• 1 (15oz can white beans - drained
• 1 cup BBQ sauce
• 1 (14 1/2-ounce) can chicken broth
• ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tablespoons stone ground mustard
• 1/2 tsp. salt + 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 1 tsp Grill Mates seasoning (Smokehouse Maple)

Directions:
Wipe out and spray the slow cooker. Set on low and cover. (slave always says this. You will NEVER be disappointed if you follow this simple step where as you might ruin the days work if you forget it).

Chop your onions and cut up the bacon and the chicken. Cut off the large portions of fat from the thighs. 
 

In a skillet heat 1 Tbs oil, bacon pieces and chopped up onions. Cook until starting to turn color and the fat has rendered slightly, 7 to 8 minutes.

Remove to a paper towel lined plate. Then using a slotted spoon spread in bottom of cooker. (the bacon will finish cooking during the 8 hours in the cooker)

Place chicken over onions.
Add the cans of corn, stewed tomatoes, drained beans, BBQ sauce & broth, and the remaining ingredients.

 Cover and let cook on low for 8 hours.
For a true southern taste serve with hot cornbread muffins!

What a tasty treat! So proud to be able to serve this to my Master.
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Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 –1973) was an English-American poet. He was noted for stylistic and technical achievement, engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues", poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles", and poems on cultural and psychological themes such as “The Age of Anxiety"

He came to wide public attention at the age of twenty-three, in 1930, with his first book, Poems, followed in 1932 by The Orators. Three plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood in 1935–38 built his reputation as a left-wing political writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1947 long poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era.

From around 1927 to 1939 Auden and Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship while both had briefer but more intense relations with other men.

Auden and Kallman in their home

In 1939 Auden fell in love with Chester Kallman and regarded their relationship as a marriage; this ended in 1941 when Kallman refused to accept the faithful relation that Auden demanded, but the two maintained their friendship for the next thirty two years until Auden's death. They lived in the same house or apartment in a non-sexual relationship, often collaborating on writing.

His relationships (and his unsuccessful courtships) were come and go, although some evolved into long friendships. He contrasted these relationships with what he later regarded as the "marriage" (his word) of equals that he began with Chester Kallman in 1939.

Many of Auden's poems were inspired by unconsummated love, and in the 1950s he summarized his emotional life in a famous couplet: "If equal affection cannot be / Let the more loving one be me" ("The More Loving One").

Auden published about four hundred poems, including seven long poems (two of them book-length). The tone and content of his poems ranged from pop-song clichés to complex philosophical meditations, from the corns on his toes to atoms and stars, from contemporary crises to the evolution of society.

Throughout his career he was both controversial and influential. Critical views on his work ranged from dismissive, to strongly affirmative, as in Brodsky's claim that he had "the greatest mind of the twentieth century".

Auden's place in modern literature has been contested. Auden was one of three candidates recommended by the Nobel Committee to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963 and 1965 and six recommended for the 1964 prize.

By the time of his death in 1973 he had attained the status of a respected elder statesman, and a memorial stone for him was placed in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1974. 

 

Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.