Welcome to BlueSmokeFire.  A place to find great reads and a few cooking ideas. I’m a book and cooking geek.  This website and all of my social media focus on those topics.

Why the chicken?

Occasionally my wife and I will paint rocks and leave them for someone to find.  Add a Face Book group for these rocks on the back and sometimes you see that your rock was found and if the finder was a keeper or hid it again for someone else.  I painted that chicken on one of those rocks.  Never saw anything about that rock again.  Anyway, it was kind of a random avatar choice for Twitter and fairly recognizable so I’ve just stuck with it.