Chicken

Even though I eat it at least once a week, I never get tired of chicken. And unlike so many of my favorite foods, there’s nothing exotic or extravagant about it. Chicken is so versatile that once you’ve mastered a few of its basic principles you’ll be able to improvise literally dozens of soups. Chicken is also inexpensive. Even the so-called free-range chickens, which cost about twice as much as mass-produced varieties, are inexpensive when compared with other meats.