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Economic Tidbits
June 22, 2026 6:00 PM

“Chickens were for a long time were rather rare. Descended from the red jungle fowl that lived in trees in southeast Asia, they first started to spend time near humans when the arrival of rice and millet farming provided attractive food at ground level.” How The World Made the West—A 4,000 year history, Josephine Quinn, Random House, 2024

