To enable discreet delivery on the Bel-Air's 12-acre spread, elaborate plating is simplified for transit, and the food (including pan-roasted jidori chicken and hand-cut steak tartare) forgoes the flourish of tableside preparations, so soup arrives in an insulated pitcher and sauces are applied in the kitchen.

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Ted Giannoulas was a student at San Diego State University in the early 1970s when he accepted a gig to don a chicken suit and hand out Easter eggs to kids at the San Diego Zoo.

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But this is pecan-smoked rotisserie chicken and there are hand-made sauces to accompany the fries.

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Their actions were indicative of the fear that the game of chicken is getting out of hand.

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On the other hand, soaking raw chicken in marinade for 10 minutes before you cook it will keep those outer layers moist, and help keep carcinogens from forming, even if it's cooked directly on the grill.

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The famed management theorist, who died this month at 95, was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where his hand-typed (chicken scratches and all in those days) manuscripts would reach us nearly every month.

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Yet in every game of chicken, there is one party that has the upper hand.

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