These days, hot chicken is a must-try Southern food.
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..
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.
The James Beard Foundation has given Prince\'s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish.
Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year.
Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken Nashville-style.
These days, hot chicken is a must-try Southern food
