Biscuits or pie crust topping? That's the great Chicken Pot Pie debate, right? Having grown up in Vermont, my Mom always made Chicken Pot Pie the commonly Northern way ~ with drop biscuits on top. Only we didn't call the dish Chicken Pot Pie ... we referred to rich-and-creamy chicken-and-vegetable filling topped with biscuits as Chicken and Dumplings.
Now in the South, Chicken and Dumplings is an entirely different thing ... not resembling the biscuit-topped dish of my youth at all. So fast forward about 12 years or so from my Vermont growing up days to the first time I ordered Chicken and Dumplings in a restaurant after having moved to North Carolina ...