"Don't touch anything important afterwards," he says, tearing into a juicy chicken breast with his fingers. Davis has brought me here to share a plate of Prince's "medium" spiced bird, which he says is the equivalent of "hot" anywhere else.Īuthor Timothy Davis makes his own home-cooked version of hot chicken. The Prince family has been selling hot chicken for more than 70 years and is thought to have conceived the dish. "Prince's is the ground zero for hot chicken," says Timothy Davis, author of The Hot Chicken Cookbook - the Fiery History and Red Hot Recipes of Nashville's Beloved Bird. Drinks come from a vending machine on the back wall. When a clerk calls out your order number, you pick up your paper plate of chicken, served on a red cafeteria tray. Old-fashioned wooden booths line the walls of the small dining room. "I'm going to get two hot of the breast quarters." "Need my hot chicken," says construction worker Jose Rodriguez as he approaches the kitchen window to place his order. Here at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, people line up long before the doors open to get their fix. But to find the real thing, you might start in a nondescript strip mall on the northeast side of Nashville, Tenn. Nashville Hot Chicken is showing up everywhere lately, from fast-food marquees to trendy restaurant menus. The staple at legendary Prince's is fiery hot fried chicken, always served on white bread, with pickles.ĭanielle Atkins/Courtesy of Spring House Press
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