The Hot Chicken Project
Words + Recipes | Obsession + Salvation
Published on 1. April 2020
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-74379-484-5 (ISBN)
Description
For acclaimed Australian chef Aaron Turner, hot chicken isn't just food - it's salvation in crispy, fried and devilishly spicy form. In The Hot Chicken Project, he travels back to Nashville, the place of its birth, to pay his respects to the makers, to chart the love and obsession that has shaped his world, and to make sure that what he does back home is doing it justice. Part cookbook, part pilgrimage, The Hot Chicken Project is both an epic love letter to the fiery bird and a celebration of a way of life that is in danger of vanishing forever.
The Hot Chicken Project is part recipe book (40 recipes covering the best mains, sandwiches, sides, salads and sauces), part narrative, part pictorial celebration of the history and power hot chicken holds over the city of Nashville - and now beyond (including London!).
It frames the stories of the people and families and communities who have cooked and eaten and appropriated it in Nashville over several generations. It offers a loud, opinionated take-no-prisoners perspective on food culture in the US (and beyond) today, as well as being an incomparable how-to manual for the VERY best hot chicken and accompaniments - wherever you are.
The Hot Chicken Project is part recipe book (40 recipes covering the best mains, sandwiches, sides, salads and sauces), part narrative, part pictorial celebration of the history and power hot chicken holds over the city of Nashville - and now beyond (including London!).
It frames the stories of the people and families and communities who have cooked and eaten and appropriated it in Nashville over several generations. It offers a loud, opinionated take-no-prisoners perspective on food culture in the US (and beyond) today, as well as being an incomparable how-to manual for the VERY best hot chicken and accompaniments - wherever you are.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Yarra
Australia
Illustrations
Four-colour photography
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1101 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74379-484-5 (9781743794845)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Aaron Turner is the innovative and acclaimed chef and owner of the acclaimed IGNI, in regional Australia. A personal crisis led him to spending a couple of years in Nashville. This was where he discovered hot chicken. He returned to Australia to open IGNI in 2016, as well as The Hot Chicken Project. Turner was named chef of the year in 2016 and he has since continued to combine work at the highest levels of the restaurant scene with his second project championing the charms of real-deal Nashville-style hot chicken.