Black people love themselves some fried chicken. You cannot have a social function without fried chicken. Fried chicken has become such a staple of the black family household that it’s just one more thing we’re believed to have invented.
Fried chicken is a staple of traditional Scottish cuisine, originally deep fried in fat. When the Scots arrive in the rural south, they brought their recipes with them and taught the kitchen slaves how to prepare them. The slaves, who were able to bring spices from their native lands, as well as cultivate local herbs, enhanced the flavor of the chicken dishes, as well as substituting oil for fat.
Fried chicken became popular amongst slaves because they were allowed to raise chickens in their quarters, and they soon discovered that fried chicken could be kept well and eaten as snack when working in the fields.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
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I recommend reading Dr. Psyche A. Williams Forson's new book, Building Houses with Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power . It just came out in 2006 and it is brilliant.
Removal of the November 19th comment would be most appreciated as it is obviously someone attempting humor and failing.
Trust the Scots - who now deep fry pizza, Mars chocolate bars and Digestive bisuits - to have originated Fried Chicken. Having said that Black people can be proud in having developed the dish in many forms (such as West Indian Jerk Chicken). I'm certain, having lived in Glasgow for a time, that the Scottish original wouldn't have been as tasty or successful. However I wouldn't object to Colonel Sanders being replaced with Groundskeeper Willy.
I don't know which slave ship you arrived on which allowed you to pack clothes and spices!!!!???
So you are thinking that people who were attacked in their villages, perhaps at night, had their wits about them to throw a bag of spice in their pj pocket before the chain was clicked about their necks and feet???
What you wrote about people bring spices with them is a whole heap of bs. The slave owners brought spices, perhaps in the same ship even, but certainly not the slaves who were packed like sardines.....
Know what, I am getting annoyed...where did you learn about slavery?
Maybe American slaves came of their own free will right?
Not so with my ancestors in the caribbean.
Research your info before you start writing...rubbish...you are doing a disservice to millions and millions of people who suffered at the hands of those tyrannies.
You need to read only remedial info to get the grips of what really happened.
Jeeeez!
Gemma
Perhaps you have some research of your own to do? It is documented that slaves brought with them seeds and spices.
I did not write anything about "packing clothes".
There is an ongiong debate at work about what is "Soul Food" and after hearing a co-workers comment regarding what slaves ate It got me to woundering, Did they eat macaroni and cheese and these types of modern dishes?
Slaves? Most likely not (unless it was leftover scraps or stolen).
Thomas Jefferson is reported to have served it at the White House, but its roots are English.
The term, "Soul Food" did not come into the vernacular until about the 60s, during the Black Love/Black Power movements.
Soul food really is whatever the homecooked food you grew up on consisted of, made from whole ingredients and almost always from scratch.
Soul Food varies from region to region.
A lot of the ingredients and dishes that fall under the umbrella of Soul Food have their roots in Europe, with African and Indigenous influences here and there.
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