Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
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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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHot, Hot Chicken\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Louise Martin\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e online, Bitter Southerner, CityLab, and Catapult. She has been featured on the BBC's \u003ci\u003eFood Chain\u003c\/i\u003e, KCRW's \u003ci\u003eGood Food\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Michelle Meow Show\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
