Scarpariello Chicken

This is another Italian-American dish that translates as “shoemaker’s” style chicken, and consists of golden brown, pieces of roasted chicken that are topped with a tasty lemon flavored sauce.  

It is thought that this dish was named Scarpariello as the chicken bones protrude from your mouth as you eat them much like a shoemaker might hold tacks in his mouth as he works. Another southern Italian origin to the name comes about from the fact that even the family of a poor shoemaker in southern Italy could afford to make this dish, while yet another version to explain it’s name is that all of the ingredients in this dish can be easily “cobbled” together. Whatever the source of it’s name might be, the dish is delicious.

Buon Appetito!