Hot Chicken Cookbook: The Fiery History & Red-Hot Recipes of Nashville's Beloved Bird

The secret's out about Nashville's Hot Chicken Entrenched in the city's history, Nashville Hot Chicken is an addiction of sweet, spicy salvation to those who've had it. Now you can join the growing legion of Hot Chicken disciples and take a deep dive, taste buds flaring, into the myth, secrets, and addictive deliciousness behind one of the South's most iconic dishes. Packed with traditional and modern recipes for Hot Chicken, spicy backstories, amusing sidebars, and passionate perspectives from culinary luminaries like Edward Lee, Andrew Zimmern, Carla Hall, and Linton Hopkins, 'The Hot Chicken Cookbook' is the first and best authority on a beloved dish that is flying the coop to international acclaim.

Timothy Charles Davis has written for a host of outlets, including Saveur, the Christian Science Monitor, Gastronomica, Mother Jones, Salon.com, and The Oxford American. He is a former staff writer and food columnist at Creative Loafing in Charlotte, NC and Weekly Surge in Myrtle Beach, SC. He contributed as an associate editor for Gravy, the official magazine of the Southern Foodways Alliance, and was also a co-writer of The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook. He lives in Nashville, TN, where he's written for outlets including Nashville Scene, Nashville Lifestyles, and The East Nashvillian, and worked in more restaurant kitchens than he'd care to mention. He's a "hot, extra bread, extra pickles" kind of guy, sometimes dropping down to a "medium" for a few weeks in the interest of self-preservation.

Old School Heat Goes Global Food is great; food with a story is better. Food with a story you haven't heard before is best of all. Entrenched in the city's history, Nashville Hot Chicken is an addiction of sweet, spicy salvation to those who've had it. In The Hot Chicken Cookbook, Timothy Davis, a Nashville resident and Hot Chicken devotee, traces the dish's origins back to the 1930's and follows the trail to its white-hot buzz of today. Featuring over two- dozen recipes from the finest Hot Chicken restaurants in Nashville and beyond, The Hot Chicken Cookbook tells the tale of Music City's fiery bird going global to influence a world of chefs and eaters.

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