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Hot, Hot Chicken : A Nashville Story by Rachel Louise Martin (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVanderbilt University Press
ISBN-100826501761
ISBN-139780826501769
eBay Product ID (ePID)3050084721
Product Key Features
Book TitleHot, Hot Chicken : a Nashville Story
Number of Pages228 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, History, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreCooking, House & Home, Social Science, History
AuthorRachel Louise Martin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-046179
Reviews"Nashville hot chicken is what best represents the soul of the city, and Rachel Martin describes its storied history. With a crunchy, spicy exterior, and a warm, melting center, it embodies what Nashville is all about." -- Maneet Chauhan , James Beard Award-winning chef, TV personality, restaurateur, and author of Chaat, "Focusing on a single dish and the branches of the Prince family who created it, Rachel Louise Martin uses Nashville's signature, world-famous hot chicken to guide us through the history of a quintessential southern American town. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to a great city and to the people who were positively influenced by the very African American culture it sought, so often, to undermine. The delicacy of hot chicken is a thread between two cultures and gives historical perspective to this culinary craze." -- Carla Hall , chef and author of Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration, "Historically, when we have heard about chicken and African American communities, it is from the perspective of stereotypes and offenses. Rachel Louise Martin has joined the voices that are turning the tide on recognizing the many contributions made by African Americans to cooking 'the gospel bird.' From their migration to Nashville to the present, Martin has shared the story of the Prince family and their place in history as the primary creators of the hot chicken phenomena. This is exciting reading filled with nuggets of African American histories of food, taste, labor, economics, race, gender, place, region, community, and so much more. It is at the same time a gastronomic study, memoir, and illumination of perseverance as much as it is about the ways culinary landscapes can be contentious and even triumphant. It can and should be taught in courses on entrepreneurship, labor, storytelling, material culture, and regionalism, among so many others. And it absolutely is a food history that should be read by all!" -- Psyche Williams-Forson , author of Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power, "I'm from Nashville, and I was able to put myself in the neighborhoods mentioned. I learned so much history that I didn't know. Great job here." - Carla Hall
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal647.9576855
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Set It Up: A Tennessean's Take on Mise en Place Chapter 1: Brine with Hot Sauce: The Princes Move to Nashville, 1860-1924 Chapter 2: Toss to Coat: Forgotten Promises, the Origins of Urban Renewal, and the Cost of Erasure, 1925-1940 Chapter 3: Shake That Dredge: The Redevelopment of Hell's Half Acre and the Destruction of Thornton Prince III's First Restaurant, 1941-1952 Chapter 4: Let It Rest: The Barbecue Chicken Shack, Culinary Nostalgia, and the Death of Thornton Prince III, 1952-1960 Chapter 5: Fry in Spitting-Hot Oil: Jumping Jefferson Brought Low, 1961-1968 Chapter 6: Fry Again: Black Nashville Fights Back, 1968-1973 Chapter 7: Find Your Own Spice: Ms. André Prince Jeffries and the Hot Chicken Heirs, 1974-1998 Chapter 8: Plate on White Bread: Hot Chicken Goes Global, 1998-2020 Conclusion: Dig In Epilogue: Wash Up Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisHow Nashville's signature dish stayed hidden for decades in the city's Black communities--and then became a global obsession, 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberTX945.5.P687M37 2021
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