Citations:chicken Kiev

Noun: “a dish of stuffed chicken breast”

 * 1938, “Unusual Dishes From Sirniki to Blinys Discovered by Food Expert on Recent Trip,” The Dallas Morning News, 1938-02-25, p 10:
 * Some of my Chicago friends took me to the same restaurant (a Russian restaurant called Yar—ed.) for dinner one night and ordered the specialty of the house, stuffed breast of chicken, Kieff. If you have ever eaten chicken prepared in this manner you know that you must begin at the small end of the batter shell which surrounds it. When you cut into it a savory butter sauce pours out.
 * 1938, “News of Capital Night Clubs,” The Washington Post, 1938-10-26, p X16:
 * A rare morsel is Troika’s breast of chicken à la Kieff. The commendable Mr. Kieff seems to have been the Ziegfeld of chicken breast."
 * 1991, ABN Correspondence, v 42, Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations.
 * [p 6] In Kyiv this summer, U.S. President George Bush lectured Ukrainians against independence, a performance insightfully tagged by New York Times columnist William Safire as “the Chicken Kyiv” speech.
 * [p 47] That misreading of the forces of history in his “chicken Kyiv” speech not only made one American President appear to be anti-liberty, but jeopardized our relations with an emerging European power. [Quoting William Safire but respelling his original “Chicken Kiev”]
 * 1993, Observer, March 7, p 24:
 * I suppose there’s a Chicken Marketing Board somewhere which logs this vital information, analyses the results and then sends front-line dispatches to all its producers, instructing them to ditch the cacciatore, double the Kiev and keep the ready-breaded thighs rolling.
 * 1996, Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us, v 1, p 279:
 * Chicken Kyiv is known worldwide.
 * 2000, Russia, Ukraine & Belarus, Lonely Planet.
 * [p 104] Котлета по-киевски (kaht-LYET-uh pa-KEE-iv-ski) – chicken Kyiv (or Kiev), fried boneless chicken breast stuffed with butter (watch out, it squirts!)
 * [p 760] Kotleta po-Kyivsky  Known as Chicken Kyiv or Kiev to the English-speaking world, kotleta po-Kyivsky (котлета по-київськи) does exist, but for some reason it’s not easy to find.
 * 2014, Victor Malarek, Orphanage 41, Victoria, BC: FriesenPress, p 140:
 * “Have you ever had chicken Kyiv? ¶ “No. Does the chicken taste different when it comes from Kyiv?” ¶ Alex laughed. “No. Chicken is chicken no matter where it comes from. They all cluck the same. Chicken Kyiv is a kind of recipe for cooking it. It’s quite delicious.”
 * 2017, Jesse Dunford Wood, Modern British Food: Recipes from Parlour, London: Absolute Press:
 * Having eaten six Kievs in Kyiv, and realising mine really was the best one out of all of them, I decided to dedicate my (secret British national dish) Kiev to Kyiv the city and call it a ... Chicken Kyiv, and ever since people have been asking why the dish is misspelt on the menu.