Andrew Zimmern Opens Restaurant, Diners Beware

“Waiter, if this is the deconstructed chicken pot pie, I fear asking for a doggy bag.”

That is one disapproving/sleepy Chippy, Ada C. Photo by Dan Cole.

50 comments … read them below or add one

  1. wuyizidi says:

    Oh no’s, is that what they mean by raw food?

  2. 260Oakley says:

    From the latest episode of Hell’s Chicken. Feathers are gonna fly.

  3. tammy. says:

    so sad!!!! so wrong!!!! (and so cute!!! ;) )

  4. Hon Glad says:

    Chick Au Vin.

  5. Rebecca says:

    This is sort of off topic, but Andrew Zimmern used to live one house over from me until he moved two years ago to a nicer house (I’m assuming it’s a nicer house b/c if you are AZ, why wouldn’t you move to a nicer house?). He had a pug named Pretzel that he would walk in front of our house and Pretzel drove our dog crazy ( I was therefore often alerted to AZ’s presence in front of our house).

  6. 260Oakley says:

    Egg drop soup, perhaps?

  7. The chicken little special.

  8. arrg! What’s to moderate? chicken? Little? by the way the chicken is a floofy one, so cute and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the kind with TOE FLOOF!
    signed,
    Ded from teh qte

  9. NC says:

    Not cute!!

  10. Claire Z says:

    Le Coo-Set

  11. pounce says:

    You look so good I could just EAT YOU UP!

  12. Jerilyn says:

    That’s one tender chicken! Or a hot chick. Or an entree at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Or a vegetarian-izer (not to be confused with an appetizer!!!) Chicken tartare? OMG, I’ve totally lost my mind… again… Sigh.

  13. cathybat says:

    wonder if young haggis would be as cute.

  14. tracylee says:

    ooh! let’s do more of these!

    adorable deconstructions:
    veal parmesean
    mutton and mint jelly
    BLT
    Terducken!

    I really could take this too far…

  15. StormCat42 says:

    OH Oakley, you are slaying me!!! And Jerilyn, you’re running a close 2nd there!!!

  16. Lucy says:

    *plink plink* eye capsules!

  17. Me says:

    I will save him! Poor baby

  18. Val says:

    Hope he pecks your tongue!

  19. Katiedid says:

    260Oakley! You stoled my egg drop soup joke!!!! *shakey fist*

  20. Gigi says:

    Oh it must be “nouvelle cuisine” from Paris, they are so “avant garde” and all of that kind of things.

  21. bucketgirl says:

    @tracylee – if you have any more chicken or egg ideas, post ‘em. I’ll see to it that the photog hears about them. :)

  22. J says:

    That’s not pot pie, that’s chick-in-salad!

  23. Cat Training says:

    A chick in every pot!

  24. tracylee says:

    right on, bucketgirl! get a piggeh and we can do a whole breakfast layout… set an orange in a glass and a hoglet-n-eggbert on a plate? or is that too… something..?

    set chickie in one of those little egg cups? (I asked for soft boiled, not soft fluffy!)
    put a brick hat on him? (chicken under a brick)
    a line of repeating chicks and eggs? which came first?
    Mother and Child Reunion (Chinese dish that inspired Paul Simon’s song) – chicken + eggie in one dish
    salad bowl with chick in the middle… see J’s above.. chick-in-salad (bwah hah hahhah!)

  25. Wend says:

    Love it!!!! Addin all the puns and it’s ttooo much win!!

    But will no one mention my all time fav remedy… chicken soup?

  26. Mela says:

    Look how big the peas are compared to the chick!!

  27. 260Oakley says:

    @tracylee
    How about chick with a crown = Chicken a la King
    (could also be a chick with a slightly outrageous hairdo, then it would be Chicken a la Don King)

  28. Alexandra says:

    Everytime I see a little chick now, it reminds me of the clip “Disco lies” from Moby where you see plenty of little chick-chick roaming around; plus a really big one chasing after KFC’s guy for obvious reasons (…).

  29. L says:

    This reminds me of a classic still life painting, with the little bits of things scattered on the table. But one would have to call this a “warm, wiggling, and cheeping” life.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Basket-fruits-1622.jpg

  30. victoreia says:

    I didn’t know Le Cruset (sp?) made such small pots! Or that they came with disapproving chicks!

    Can I find that one at Executive Chef?

  31. skippymom says:

    The relative sizes of things in this picture are making my brain all confused. If that’s a normal-size chick, and those are normal-size peas, that must be the smallest Le Creuset pot in the world?
    Then again, I’ve had a severe head cold for a week, and I’m feeling pretty confused in general. Hmm, I could go for some soup–let’s see, what kind, now?

  32. skippymom says:

    Hey, these little pots are called cocottes, and they cost $80. And no, Victoreia, sadly they seem not to actually come with chicks.

  33. sherb says:

    The non-vegetarian version of chick-peas

  34. chanpon says:

    He disapproves of being in your pot pie!

  35. bucketgirl says:

    Haha great ideas! We usually describe this photo as Chippy Soup, but I like the idea of Chippy Pot Pie. Maybe we can do another one with a little crust on his head. Or Chippy and Dumplings.

    Yes, that pot is a real cast iron Le Creuset, and actually that size. I got it in my stocking a few years back.

  36. O NO (he/she/or it) DI'UNT!!!!! says:

    um 260Oakley:

    (Note # 1:
    anyone who thinks, that this is intended as a distinction about racial differences…please believe me when I say that TRULY is not where I’m from)

    in re. Don King’s coiffure: “SLIGHTLY” outrageous ????? WT********???

    I nevvah knew, that you DO understatement.
    I thought you were all about the BLUNT ones.

    (Note #2: BLUNT JOKES, NOT the slightly shorter marijuana thinggies)

    Kudos. (KuDAS to a gal?)

  37. derz says:

    stirring the pot. HEH

    (with a chick inside =P)

  38. Teresa says:

    :twisted: “Very funny! Now get me out of here!” says little chickie :twisted:

  39. crashnandicoot says:

    it’s why i’m vegetarian. Like I could eat that!

  40. Rumi says:

    Rebecca 05.25.10 at 10:27 am
    This is sort of off topic, but Andrew Zimmern used to live one house over from me until he moved two years ago to a nicer house (I’m assuming it’s a nicer house b/c if you are AZ, why wouldn’t you move to a nicer house?). He had a pug named Pretzel that he would walk in front of our house and Pretzel drove our dog crazy ( I was therefore often alerted to AZ’s presence in front of our house).
    _____________________

    So is AZ a nice guy? He seems like he would be.

  41. Fleurdamour says:

    Talk about free range.

  42. aquasaline says:

    I’ve always heard chicken soup will cure what ails ya – and ya know? I feel better just looking at that little pot o’ chicken!

  43. tracylee says:

    bucketgirl, that musta been a mammoth stocking…

  44. jude says:

    That chick looks just like Madaline Albright.

  45. violet says:

    I am here to read 260Oakley. ROFLmyArseOff.

  46. Absolute, utter disapproval! I approve of this message.

  47. Oh, Jerilyn, you had to go there… In that case-SO LONG & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!

  48. psychethos says:

    It makes me uncomfortable when food is this cute.

  49. Ann says:

    Food that bites back! Me scoop him up and run.

  50. spacebunny says:

    I once unwittingly ordered a deconstructed caesar salad at a fancy restaurant once. I was all like WTF? when it arrived. Unchopped romaine lettuce still attached at the stem, a stain of dressing, and one anchovy laid across the lettuce. Weird. And overpriced.