Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story

Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story - Paperback

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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story - Paperback

Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story - Paperback

by Rachel Louise Martin
$19.95
$19.95

Book Overview

These days, hot chicken is a "must-try" Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken "Nashville-style." Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince's Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish.

But for almost seventy years, hot chicken was made and sold primarily in Nashville's Black neighborhoods--and the story of hot chicken says something powerful about race relations in Nashville, especially as the city tries to figure out what it will be in the future.

Hot, Hot Chicken recounts the history of Nashville's Black communities through the story of its hot chicken scene from the Civil War, when Nashville became a segregated city, through the tornado that ripped through North Nashville in March 2020.
ISBN9780826501769
Author Rachel Louise Martin
PublisherVanderbilt University Press
GenreHistory, Education, and Food & cooking
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages228
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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