Grant Wood Chicken bake

Soon Labor day will be here and the start of autumn cooking. Here is a different way to fix those good old chicken thighs. We dedicate it to a famous American painter that few knew was gay. So many of our LGBT luminaries have been white-washed in history in an effort to make them invisible. Check out the short story about this man.

 

Hearty baked chicken in a bed of corn can not be more of a precursor of the fall weather ahead. Practice this now and add it to your entertaining possibilities for the holidays.

Ingredients:

4 chicken thighs

1 (14.75 oz) can yellow corn drained

1 (14.75 oz) can of cream style sweet corn

½ sleeve of crackers, crumbled up

2 tablespoon butter or margarine cut into chunks

2 Tbs sugar

1 Tbs brown sugar

2 tbs flour

½ teaspoon SWEET paprika

Salt and pepper to taste.

Directions: 

 

Pre heat oven to 325 degrees and spray a baking dish.

In a skillet over medium heat, brown the chicken, top and bottom for about 5 minutes each side, just to give them a nice brown color.

In a large bowl combine the cans of corn.

With a heavy wooden spoon, mix in the crushed crackers, the sugars and the flour. 

 

Transfer to prepared casserole. Dot with pieces of butter.

Arrange the chicken pieces on top and dust with the paprika.

Cover.

Bake, for 1½ hours.

Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes.

This will give plenty of time to zap a quick green vegetable for your other side.

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Grant Wood 

 

   

1930

Did you know Grant Wood who created the USA’s first official style of painting known as Regionalism and was most known for American Gothic was gay?

Throughout his life, he used his talents for many Iowa-based businesses as a steady source of income. In addition, his 1928 trip to Munich was to oversee the making of the stained glass windows he had designed for a Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids.

At age 33 Wood lived with his mother in the loft of a carriage house in Cedar Rapids, which he had turned into his personal studio. Wood was married for 3 years. Friends considered the marriage a mistake for Wood.

Wood taught painting at the University of Iowa's School of Art from 1934 to 1941.

It is suspected that he was a homosexual, and that there was an attempt to fire him because of a relationship with his personal secretary.

Critic Janet Maslin states that his friends knew him to be "homosexual and a bit facetious in his masquerade as an overall-clad farm boy." University administration dismissed the allegations and Wood would have returned as professor if not for his growing health problems.

The painting above is known as Arnold’s coming of age. Arnold was his young 21 year old lover.

The painting has 3 distinct planes, one being the two male youths in the right hand corner in a Adam and Eve style with the one bent over depicting the gay struggle with religion and sex, the left plane shows a butterfly that was often used to label a person as gay, they also hung out at a bar named the butterfly cafe so it could also mean that.

The nude painting was considered so graphic the U.S. postal service refused to carry the prints, another interesting fact is the model used for that one was Eric Knight the author of Lassie Come Home. Gay culture swept under the rug.

The day before his 51st birthday, in 1942, Wood died at the university hospital of pancreatic cancer.

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