Engagement Chicken is a lemon and herb flavored
roast chicken dish, purported to cause boyfriends
to propose marriage.
== Origin ==
The recipe was developed by Kim Bonnell, a
fashion editor at Glamour Magazine, following
a trip to Italy.
In 1982, Bonnell gave the recipe to co-worker
Kathy Suder to prepare for her boyfriend and
soon afterwards, the couple was engaged.
The recipe made the rounds in the office and
three other women in the office were offered
marriage proposals soon after making the dish
for their boyfriends.
In 2003, after Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi
Leive heard that wedding proposals followed
making the recipe, she dubbed the recipe "Engagement
Chicken" and ran the recipe in the magazine
in December 2003.
Soon afterwards the magazine began receiving
letters from women claiming that their boyfriends
proposed shortly after being served the dish.
The magazine claims 70 couples have married
after the women served their boyfriends the
dish.
== In the media ==
The month the recipe appeared in Glamour.
Beth Ostrosky fixed the dish for her boyfriend,
shock jock Howard Stern.
The next day Stern, who had sworn off marrying
again, described the dish on air to the amusement
of his co-hosts who claimed that the "trap
had been set."
One of the show's audience members called
in and said the dish he described appeared
in a recent edition of Glamour and told him
the name of the dish and how it got its name.
Stern called Ostrosky on air.
Ostrosky claimed that she wanted to fix the
dish because it looked delicious and appeared
very simple to prepare, but also told how
romantic Stern became while eating the dinner.
Two years later Stern and Ostrosky became
engaged.The recipe has also been featured
on the Today Show, Martha, Barefoot Contessa
and Good Morning America.
== See also ==
List of chicken dishes
== Notes ==
== External links ==
Engagement Chicken Recipe from Glamour
