Maryland chicken
- noun
- US
:
pollo al estilo Maryland
- The restaurant's specialty is Maryland chicken, served with a rich milk gravy.
Examples
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For Sunday dinner, she made Maryland chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and green beans.
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He learned how to cook Maryland chicken from his grandmother's old recipe book.
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I love Maryland chicken for dinner.
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Have you tried Maryland chicken at the new restaurant?
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For Sunday dinner, she made Maryland chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and green beans.
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The restaurant's specialty is Maryland chicken, served with a rich milk gravy.
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He learned how to cook Maryland chicken from his grandmother's old recipe book.
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'Maryland' (a place) and 'chicken' (the food) will readily infer this refers to a regional style of chicken from Maryland, so the general category (a dish) is transparent. However, the specific preparation method (fried then baked and served with milk gravy) is not derivable from the constituents alone and requires cultural/lexical knowledge of the dish, so the expression is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Maryland chicken comes from the US state Maryland, where cooks traditionally fried chicken first, then baked it and served it with a milk gravy. One popular story says the name simply points to that local cooking 'style', which is why today Maryland chicken means a chicken prepared that way.
