Our Daily Breather is a series where we ask writers and artists to recommend one thing that’s helping them get through the days of isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Who: Paul Burch Where: Nashville, Tenn. Recommendation: Making hot chicken Paul Burch and his wife Meg Giuffrida. Courtesy of the artist It’s tough work to be a chicken. You’re always the punchline. If you’re not brave, you’re chicken. If you buy up all the toilet paper in a pandemic, you’re like a chicken with its head cut off. If you’re old, you’re no spring chicken. The foolish count their eggs before they hatch — or worse, put all their eggs in one basket. If you’re cruel, your comeuppance will come in the form of chickens coming home to roost. Chickens are bystanders in life’s eternal questions: “Who came first, the chicken or the egg?” and “Why did the chicken cross the road?” Witches cut their throats for spells. Country music stars like Minnie Pearl and Eddy Arnold opened chicken shacks and found the only
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