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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.
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Nashville might be best known as the home of country music, but experiencing the true toe-tapping flavours of Nashville requires trying the local speciality,
Nashville hot chicken.
What is Nashville hot chicken?
Think of a hotter and fiercer version of Southern fried chicken, where a cayenne-based spicy hot oil coating does all the talking.
Where is Nashville hot chicken from?
The local speciality is thought to have originated at
Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville, when it was created as a fiery-hot breakfast dish of revenge before it swiftly became a beloved staple of late-night music lovers. Traditionally the hot chicken is served up over white bread and garnished with pickles.