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Ritual Chicken Dinner, Ohio-Style

Posted by Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle , November 20, 2009 12:30

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America revels in the Ritual Chicken Dinner, whether it’s the bountiful roast chicken and pasta feasts of Rhode Island, the fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy served in Kansas City, or the Cornell chicken with picnic salads found in Upstate New York. The suburb of Akron, Ohio called Barberton has their own version of the ritual, with origins in Eastern Europe: lard-fried chicken served with a tomato-rice “hot sauce.” Jane and Michael Stern made a recent appearance on Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s The Splendid Table to discuss this unique take on the chicken dinner; you can listen to them online. If you’d rather hear the entire show, you can do that too. The photo above is from the Roadfood.com review of Belgrade Gardens in Barberton.

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11/21/2009 1:44:38 PM #

Bruce, it was you who noticed the similarity of Barberton chicken to that served at Teibel's in Indiana, yes? I guess we'd call that the middle-European-Midwestern style.

Michael Stern |

11/21/2009 2:18:42 PM #

What surprised me about all that was I had no idea there WAS a Middle European fried chicken tradition to transfer to the Midwest, until I visited Barberton and Teibel's.

Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle |

11/22/2009 11:21:26 AM #

Ma, Is That Really You?

Ma, Is That Really You?

Roadfood Digest |

11/22/2009 11:30:38 AM #

This reminds me of Viennese fried chicken, or "Backhendl." I had it in Vienna when I visited there in college back in the mid-70s. It's delicious.

rumaki |

11/22/2009 11:47:35 AM #

Excellent, rumaki! We've always wondered about that. Teibel's menu even states that the fried chicken is from a recipe brought over from Austria by Grandma Teibel. I nosed around online for backhendl and saw that backhendl is even typically prepared with a breadcrumb coating. It looks something like chicken prepared a la schnitzel.

Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle |

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