{"product_id":"hot-hot-chicken-a-nashville-story-9780826501769","title":"Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHot, Hot Chicken\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Louise Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and public intellectual. She holds a PhD in women's and gender history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e online, Bitter Southerner, CityLab, and Catapult. She has been featured on the BBC's \u003ci\u003eFood Chain\u003c\/i\u003e, KCRW's \u003ci\u003eGood Food\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Michelle Meow Show\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50622582161682,"sku":"9780826501769","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5411d954-4da6-4ca9-8df0-887a4cdcbc66.jpg?v=1732587791","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hot-hot-chicken-a-nashville-story-9780826501769","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}