Description
Hot chicken is on the list of "must-try" Southern foods in countless publications and websites. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken 'Nashville-style.' More than twelve thousand people showed up for the 2014 Fourth of July Music City Hot Chicken Festival. The James Beard Foundation recently gave 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.
About the Author
Rachel Martin is a writer and public intellectual. She holds a PhD in women's and gender history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared in O Magazine,Oxford American, The Atlantic online, Bitter Southerner, and CityLab, and she is a guest columnist for Catapult. She has been featured on the BBC's Food Chain, KCRW's Good Food and the Michelle Meow Show.
Book Information
ISBN 9780826501769
Author Rachel Louise Martin
Format Paperback
Page Count 164
Imprint Vanderbilt University Press
Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm * 13mm
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.
About the Author
Rachel Martin is a writer and public intellectual. She holds a PhD in women's and gender history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared in O Magazine,Oxford American, The Atlantic online, Bitter Southerner, and CityLab, and she is a guest columnist for Catapult. She has been featured on the BBC's Food Chain, KCRW's Good Food and the Michelle Meow Show.
Book Information
ISBN 9780826501769
Author Rachel Louise Martin
Format Paperback
Page Count 164
Imprint Vanderbilt University Press
Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm * 13mm
