Soul food is an American cuisine, a selection of foods, typically associated with African Americans of the Southern United States. In the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning, "soul" was a common adjective used to describe African American culture, and thus the name "soul food" was derived.

The Bears season has been a disappointing one, from the opening-day loss in San Diego to the most recent failure in Seattle, and a big part of that has been injuries to key cogs in the Chicago football machine. With the team's playoff chances all but dead, is it time to err on the side of caution with some of the Bears' bruised and battered?

It's not all that unusual to find a stray hair or a bug in your food but as we first told you last night, a Minot woman found something she considered a little more out of the ordinary in a box of pre-cooked chicken. In a Banquet brand box of chicken, she found what appears to be a small bird, fully battered and fried.

Do you love the taste of your favorite Southern Fried Chicken recipe? Here is a close copy of one of the more popular ones. You can bake or barbecue your chicken for a healthier alternative.

The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos. A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day. The battered, fried chicken dish with vegetables has 3,200 milligrams of sodium and 11 grams of saturated fat.

General Tso’s chicken is the most famous Hunanese dish in the world. A concoction of lightly battered chicken in a chili-laced sweet-sour sauce, it appears on restaurant menus across the globe. Despite its international reputation, however, the dish is virtually unknown in the Chinese province of Hunan itself.