![]() ![]() "The flavors stayed in my mind," he says. If Nashville-style hot chicken developed a relationship with Chick-fil-A, they might produce the sandwich that's now available at the takeout window at Chuck’s, an idea that came to Charles "Chuck" Taylor when he visited that renowned bastion of the hot chicken genre, Hattie B's in Nashville. Louis Filipino Bread bakery, Chuck's has managed to combine the Nashville napalm–style chicken with another of the more popular food diversions of the moment: fried chicken sandwiches. Sharing space with a Cecil Whittaker's Pizza location in a strip mall that’s also home to the fabulous St. It’s only been within the past decade that the fiery fowl has been exported from Tennessee now, it seems, any burg big enough to have a stoplight also sports at least one place peddling it. Next to Oprah, hot chicken is Nashville’s most famous contribution to civilization. It begins as a smoldering sensation on your tongue, then ignites and halfway through the bite, it’s gone for the jugular of your sinuses and it’s all over but, literally, the crying. It sneaks up on you like a pride of lions surrounding an unsuspecting wildebeest at a watering hole, closing in as your mouth thinks it’s just another sunny day on the savannah. ![]() Using an oily stew of volatile spices, dip the unfried chicken in it before it goes into the hot grease and then use the same potion in the crust. It’s an ingenious, some might say diabolical, preparation. Nashville’s iconic hot chicken has captured the enthusiasm of millions of eaters who’ve never been any closer to Nashville than having their heart broken in a pickup truck in the rain. ![]() Which brings us to the pickles-and more-at a new chicken joint, Chuck’s Hot Chicken, in Maryland Heights. ![]()
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