I'm game: Tired of turkey? Try feasting on Cornish hens

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: December 28, 2005| Author: Carol Anne Blitzer For AP Weekly Features | Copyright information

BATON ROUGE, La. -- As friends and family get together to savor holiday occasions a favorite main course for cooks to consider is a steaming platter of Rock Cornish game hens.

So, food lovers often ask: "What exactly are Cornish hens?"

The U.S. Department of Agriculture identifies a Rock Cornish game hen (they use that terminology in describing the Cornish hen) as "a young immature chicken . . . weighing not more than 2 pounds ready- to-cook weight, which was . . . (bred) from a ...

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