Synopses & Reviews
Nashville-style Hot Chicken is the Music City's claim to culinary fame. Entrenched in the city's history, but is also fresh enough to contribute to Nashville's exploding national popularity as a hip, creative urban scene, Hot Chicken is an addiction, a punishment, and a sweet, spicy salvation to those who've had it. Hot Chicken is action eating: physical, mental, and spiritual all at once. In The Hot Chicken Cookbook, Timothy Davis, a southerner and Nashville resident/writer, traces the dish's origins back to the late 1930's at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, a story of love gone wrong, and follows the trail to its white-hot buzz of today. For more perspective on devotion, he visits the Nashville Hot Chicken Festival and talks chicken with Food Network personality Andrew Zimmern, Southern Foodway Alliance president John T. Edge, and Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, writer of "Return to Hot Chicken." The Hot Chicken Cookbook includes over two dozen recipes for main dishes and sides from Nashville's finest Hot Chicken restaurants, along with a resource of the national Hot Chicken scene so the fiery, spicy bird of burn can be masochistically enjoyed at home or on the road.
About the Author
A native southerner, a food writer, and novelist, Timothy Charles Davis received his MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University, Charlotte, NC. He was the co-founder WriteGeneration.com and was the assistant editor on the Southern Food Alliances official newsletter, Gravy. In addition to writing for the local Nashville Scene, Nashville Lifestyles, and the East Nashvillian, Davis produced work for, among others, Saveur, The Christian Science Monitor, Travel + Life, the Oxford American, Mother Jones, Spin, and Salon.com. He has most recently worked as a co-author with Southern Foodways Alliance members John T. Edge, Sara Roahen, April McGreger and Sheri Castle on a book of Southern recipes and essays and is writing a book for University Press of Kentucky concerning the changing face of Southern cuisine. His first novel, The Procedural, is due in 2016.
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction The History of Hot Chicken The Classic Joints •Recipes •Sides Hot Chicken Grows Up •The Festivals The New Joints •Recipes •Sides Beyond the Basics The Creative Joints •Recipes •Sides Hot Chicken Beyond Nashville The Joints •Recipes The Future of Hot Chicken "The Cool-Down" - Where's It Going? Index