After 80 years, the legendary Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack is expanding to Los Angeles and taking the family’s culinary legacy back
“I try everybody’s chicken,” Kim Prince says. But as the niece of André Prince Jeffries, owner of the legendary Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville, she often regrets it.
“Just because you put it on your menu does not make it Nashville hot chicken,” she says. “I’ve been stumped that they would use the word Nashville so loosely.”
Adding salt to that wound is how black culinary traditions have historically influenced food trends that non-blacks profit from
Why can’t [chefs] culturally source that this is a specialty that started out at Prince’s Hot Chicken?
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