Magazine writer / editor Daniel Okrent is credited with inventing it, the name coming from the New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Francaise where he and some friends used to meet and play.

He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie (" Set it, and forget it!

In Malcolm Gladwell's book What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Ron Popeil is interviewed and many of his products, most notably the Veg-O-Matic and Showtime Rotisserie, are discussed.

A ' Rotisserie ' league is one in which teams are ranked in order from best to worst.

The most common scoring system in Fantasy Baseball is known as " Rotisserie ".

He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books, most recently Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns / Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition.

* Appears on the Chef Tony infomercial endorsing My Rotisserie in a number of acted scenes where he plays poker with his friends, while singing the praises of the kitchen appliance.

The landmark development in fantasy baseball came with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball in 1980, named after the New York City restaurant, La Rotisserie Française, where its founders met for lunch and first played the game.

* Showtime Rotisserie, a small rotisserie oven designed for cooking smaller sized portions of meat such as whole chicken and lamb.

This product accompanied the Showtime Rotisserie and was used to inject solid ingredients into meat or other foods.

Rotisserie can also refer to a mechanical device used for rotisserie cooking, or to a restaurant specializing in spit-roasted meat.

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.

After a lull in activity in the San Francisco branch of the society in the late 1990s and the cessation of publication of that chapter ’ s monthly newsletter Rough Draft listing of events for the San Francisco Cacophony Society ( 172 issues were produced during the years 1986 to 2001 ), a group of subscribers to the practically defunct society ’ s email discussion list became active under the Cacophony Society aegis following a mock Pigeon Roast put on by a fictitious organization calling itself " Bay Area Rotisserie Friends " in San Francisco ’ s Union Square in 2000 proposed by Drunken Consumptive Panda.

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of the early success of USA Today, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.

* Head-to-Head Rotisserie: Wins, losses and ties are based on the team's performance in individual categories.

Okrent's team in the Rotisserie League was called the " Okrent Fenokees ", a pun on the Okefenokee Swamp.

Ronco used to hold the trademark on the phrase " set it and forget it ", used in the commercials for the Showtime Rotisserie Grill.

The traditional statistics used in early Rotisserie leagues were often chosen because they were easy to compile from newspaper box scores and then from weekly information published in USA Today.

The original Rotisserie League used the following statistics:

Kentucky Fried Chicken also introduced a roasted chicken line of products called Rotisserie Gold to compete with Roasters and Boston Chicken.

Kentucky Fried Chicken also introduced a roasted chicken line of products called Rotisserie Gold to compete with Roasters and Boston Chicken.

The landmark development in fantasy sports came with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball in 1980.

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

In March 1981, Dan Okrent wrote an essay about the Rotisserie League for Inside Sports called " The Year George Foster Wasn't Worth $ 36.

Founders of the original Rotisserie league published a guide book starting in 1984.

In March 1883 along one short stretch of Allen Street, there were drinking establishments in two principal hotels, the Eagle Brewery, Cancan Chop-House, French Rotisserie, Alhambra, Maison Dore, City of Paris, Brown's Saloon, Fashion Saloon, Miners ' Home, Kelly's Wine-House, the Grotto, the Tivoli, and two more unnamed saloons.

Rotisserie leagues are likely the most strategic type of fantasy pool and reward managers whose team has strong, balanced scoring across all categories.

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics " during the ongoing season " to compile their scores.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

Rotisserie league baseball, nicknamed roto, proved to be hugely popular, even in the 1980s when full statistics and accurate reporting were often hard to come by.

* Head-to-Head One Win: Just like H2H Rotisserie, but the winner receives just one win, rather than one win for each category the team wins.

It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

There is only one Hardy style, but in the earlier poems that style is only intermittently evident, and when it is not, the style is the style of another poet, or of the fashion of the time.

The open area of the kitchen chimney is large enough to take a whole ox for roasting.

In the case of the Creme Brulee, placing the ramekins in a roasting pan and filling the pan with hot water until it is 1 / 2 to 2 / 3 of the way up the sides of the ramekins transfers the heat to the custard gently, which prevents the custard from curdling.

This process is called calcination, after calx, the Latin name of quicklime or calcium oxide, CaO, which is obtained by roasting limestone in a lime kiln.

Coffee is mainly grown around the Blue Mountains and in hilly areas, where one type, Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, is considered among the best in the world because at those heights in the Blue Mountains, the cooler climate causes the berries to take longer to ripen and the beans develop more of the substances which on roasting give coffee its flavor.

Beef is prepared in numerous ways today, including roasting, grilling ( gui ) or boiling in soups.

( the tailor is accused of stealing cloth while making breeches, this is a joke about a fashion trend in Shakespearian times, also a pun for roasting the tailor's iron with the heat of hell )

Crispy chicken is prepared by first boiling the chicken until its flesh becomes tender, then roasting it for long periods of time or until the skin goes dry and crispy.

Fuel is burned at one end and the heat melts the dry sulfide concentrates ( usually after partial roasting ), which are fed through the openings in the roof of the furnace.

A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage or baby duck ; but in the food trade young adult ducks ready for roasting are sometimes labelled " duckling ".

This is often an advantage, especially in situations where drying is the desired outcome, like drying herbs or roasting certain types of vegetables.

Braising of meat is often referred to as pot roasting, though some authors make a distinction between the two methods based on whether additional liquid is added.

The flattop grill is a versatile platform for many cooking techniques such as sautéing, toasting, steaming, stir frying, grilling, baking, braising, and roasting, and can also be used in flambéing.

This is not technically roasting temperature, but it is called slow-roasting.

At true roasting temperatures, 200 ° C ( 400 ° F ) or more, the water inside the muscle is lost at a high rate.

A reason for high temperature roasting is to brown the outside of the food, similar to browning food in a pan before pot roasting or stewing it.

Prior to roasting in an oven, meat is generally " browned " by brief exposure to high temperature.

This smoking method is sometimes referred to as " barbecuing ", " pit baking ", or " pit roasting ".

In the roasting process, sulfuric acid is formed and acts on the clay to form aluminium sulfate, a similar condition of affairs being produced during weathering.