A red plate piled high with deep-fried chicken gizzards, situated on a red and white checker tablecloth, with green beans, coleslaw, and fried okra in the background - Pamela_d_mcadams/Getty Images ...

Admittedly, chicken gizzards aren’t everyone’s idea of a pleasing appetizer. You don’t want to even think about what part of a chicken the gizzard is (mostly muscle, it’s the organ that helps the ...

Jeffrey Sills’s reaction when he heard about his assigned ingredient, he said, was “What the hell is a gizzard?” He’d never eaten them before and said they “kind of sounded gross.” As Blair Herridge ...

What it is: With a rich flavor similar to duck meat (though slightly gamier), gizzard is the secondary stomach in birds used to grind food before digestion. The texture is pleasantly springy when ...