Engagement potatoes
When the proposal meal went awry, we still found a happy ending
BY ASHLEY M. CASEY
ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR EAGLE NEWS As a girl, I grew up reading my older sister
Tricia’s Glamour magazines. When I was a
teenager, I finally got my own subscription.
I read the magazine into my twenties.
I was never one of those girls who had every detail
of her wedding planned out before ever meeting Mr.
Right, but I was enchanted by one fairy tale Glamour
has passed down for nearly 40 years.
Ashley Casey and
Kenny Copps were
married July 15, 2016,
at The Loft at Vesper
Per Glamour lore, a fashion editor in 1982 returned
from Italy raving about the best chicken she’d ever
tasted. She passed the recipe to her assistant, who
whipped up the simple herb-and-lemon roasted
chicken for her boyfriend. Within a month, the man
proposed. The lucky lady shared the recipe with her
co-workers, who reported similar romantic results.
The January 2004 issue immortalized Glamour’s
famed “Engagement Chicken” recipe. Due to its
popularity among Glamour staffers and readers,
Engagement Chicken has been credited for dozens of
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