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So says Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the âModern Familyâ star and newly minted cookbook author. He and his co-author and great friend Julie Tanous spent significant time considering what roast bird they would showcase in âFood Between Friends: A Cookbookâ (Penguin Random House; $35) which hit bookstores in March. âWe realized: At this point, everyone has a roast chicken, so we needed to figure out which we want to present to the world,â says Ferguson. Their selection is âWinner Winner Chicken Dinner,â a glorious bird thatâs brined in buttermilk for super-moist meat and crisp skin the color of mahogany. Itâs a recipe inspired by Tanousâs Alabama childhood and her momâs roast chicken, made special by the addition of local condiment Daleâs Steak Seasoning, which was first bottled in Birmingham, Ala., in 1946. She says that as she got older, she realized that there were options that included less sodium and corn syrup a ....