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Chicano rock
Chicano rock: rock and roll by Mexican Americans, centered in East Los Angeles, from Ritchie Valens and the Eastside Sound through El Chicano, Tierra, Chicano punk at the Vex, Los Lobos, and Chicano Batman.
Chicco
Chicco, also known as Chicco Twala, is a South African singer and record producer from Soweto, a leading figure of 1980s bubblegum music and a foundational force behind kwaito.
Chicha
Chicha: fermented Latin American beverage from maize, cassava, or fruits; Quechua aqa, word documented in Spanish since 1521; central to Andean ritual, Wari state brewing, and Inca ceremony.
Chicharrón
Chicharrón: fried pork skin or pork fried in its own fat, a staple across Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines; distinct from US pork rinds, with regional forms like torrezno de Soria, llardons, and Mexican chicharrón prensado.
Chicherina
Chicherina (Чичерина), the stage name of Yulia Dmitrievna Chicherina, is a Russian rock singer born in 1978 in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg, who broke through in 2000 with «Ту-лу-ла».
Chick Corea
Chick Corea (Armando Anthony Corea), American jazz pianist and composer (1941–2021); founder of Return to Forever, Miles Davis sideman, 23-time Grammy winner, composer of "Spain."
Chick Corea discography
Chick Corea discography: catalog of the jazz pianist (1941–2021), from Tones For Joan's Bones (1966) and Now He Sings, Now He Sobs through Return to Forever, the Elektric and Akoustic Bands, and Trilogy.
Chick flick
Chick flick: informal term for a film appealing especially to women, usually romantic or sentimental with a female lead; also called the successor to the woman's film. Emerged in the early 1990s, peaked then, now widely criticized as derogatory.
Chick lit
Chick lit, also called chick-lit, is a 1990s popular fiction genre of humorous novels by and for women about young single urban professional women, launched by Bridget Jones's Diary and Sex and the City, coined by Mazza and DeShell in 1995, and later fragmented into romance and women's fiction.
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A is an American fast-food chicken sandwich chain founded by S. Truett Cathy, who opened the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia in 1946; the sandwich was perfected in 1964, the first Chick-fil-A opened in Greenbriar Mall in 1967, and all locations close on Sundays.
Chicken à la King
Chicken à la King is an American dish of diced chicken in cream sauce with mushrooms, pimientos, and peppers, served on toast or pastry. Its origin is contested: Brighton Beach Hotel's chef George Greenwald, the Keene family, and cook William King are all credited.
Chicken and Duck Talk (鸡同鸭讲)
Chicken and Duck Talk (雞同鴨講, Gai tung ngap gong) is a 1988 Clifton Ko Hong Kong comedy starring Michael Hui as a roast duck restaurant owner fighting a rival fried chicken chain; it was summer 1988's top Hong Kong grosser.
Chicken and waffles
Chicken and waffles, an American dish with two lineages: Pennsylvania Dutch stewed chicken and gravy over a plain waffle from the 1600s, and the Harlem soul food fried chicken with sweet waffle popularized by Wells Supper Club in 1938 and Roscoe's in Los Angeles in 1975.
Chicken as food
Chicken as food: meat of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), the world's most consumed poultry. Over 33 billion birds (2020), 30% of global meat consumption, 165 °F safe cooking temperature, cheapest livestock meat.
Chicken Cup
The Chicken Cup (鬥彩雞缸杯) is a small doucai porcelain wine cup painted with chickens, made at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen during the Ming dynasty's Chenghua reign (1465–1487).
Chicken curry
Chicken curry: chicken simmered in a spiced sauce; term coined by East India Company men for saucy Indian dishes; reached Japan via the Royal Navy in the 1870s; USDA 260 kcal per cup.
Chicken Dance
The Chicken Dance, originally Der Ententanz (the duck dance), is a novelty party dance set to an oom-pah tune composed by Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas in 1950s Davos, popularized worldwide in the 1980s under names like Tchip Tchip and the Birdie Song.
Chicken feet
Chicken feet (凤爪, fengzhao; phoenix claws) are poultry feet eaten for their gelatinous collagen texture, central to Cantonese dim sum, Korean dakbal, and South African walkie talkies, and a major chicken-paw export trade to China.
Chicken Girls
Chicken Girls: American teen web series by Brat TV, premiered September 5, 2017 on YouTube, created by Janey Feingold, starring Jules LeBlanc as Rhyme; ran 11 seasons to 2023 with a 2018 feature film and College Years spin-off.
Chicken Kiev (Котлета по-киевски)
Chicken Kiev (котлета по-київськи, kotleta po-kyivsky) is a breaded chicken cutlet stuffed with herb butter, claimed by Ukrainian and Russian cuisine with disputed French, St Petersburg, and Kyiv origins; first printed 1913-1914, revived by Intourist in 1947, a Marks & Spencer ready meal from 1979.
Chicken Little (2005 film)
Chicken Little (2005) is Walt Disney Animation Studios' first fully computer-animated feature, directed by Mark Dindal, released November 4, 2005, and the first film in Disney Digital 3-D, with mixed reviews (36% Tomatometer).
Chicken McNuggets
Chicken McNuggets are McDonald's battered, twice-fried white-meat chicken pieces, developed by chef René Arend from Robert C. Baker's Cornell work and launched nationwide in 1983; US versions use no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
Chicken nugget
Chicken nugget: a small breaded, fried or baked piece of chicken, also called a nuggie. Invented by Robert C. Baker at Cornell in 1963; McDonald's McNugget debuted nationwide in 1983; fat 10.9-22.7 g/100 g.
Chicken Nugget (닭강정)
Chicken Nugget (닭강정, Dakgangjeong) is a 2024 Netflix Korean comedy-mystery series, 10 episodes released March 15, 2024, adapted from Park Ji-dok's Naver webtoon, directed by Lee Byeong-heon, starring Ryu Seung-ryong, Ahn Jae-hong, and Kim Yoo-jung as a woman turned into fried chicken.
Chicken paprikash
Chicken paprikash (paprikás csirke) is a Hungarian chicken stew in an onion-paprika sauce finished with sour cream, served with nokedli dumplings; distinct from goulash, which never contains sour cream.
Chicken Run
Chicken Run (2000) is Aardman Animations' first feature film, a stop-motion clay comedy directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park with DreamWorks and Pathé, a Great Escape-style chicken farm break-out that grossed over $220 million worldwide.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is Aardman's 2023 stop-motion sequel to Chicken Run, directed by Sam Fell, starring Thandiwe Newton and Zachary Levi, released on Netflix December 15, 2023, with Ginger breaking into a nugget factory.
Chicken Shop Date
Chicken Shop Date is a British comedy web series created, hosted, and directed by Amelia Dimoldenberg, featuring deadpan, flirtatious celebrity interviews filmed in London chicken shops since 2014.
Chicken soup
Chicken soup (鸡汤) is a broth-based soup of simmered chicken, known as "Jewish penicillin" and a global cold remedy; endorsed by Avicenna and Maimonides, it relieves cold symptoms briefly but does not cure illness.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Soul: inspirational anthology series created by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, first published 1993 by Health Communications after about 33 rejections; 101 stories per book, over 500 million copies, publishing now separate from the bankrupt 2024 entertainment arm.