Black Folks Fried Chicken Recipe

This article was originally published on BLAC Detroit.

If burgers are America’s favorite cookout food, then fried chicken is Black folk‘s favorite food for dinner.

The almost half a million west Africans enslaved in North America brought a knack for frying and braising chicken from their own cuisines. It was these African-Americans, many of whom were forced to work in the kitchens of slave plantations, who perfected the art of frying chicken. America’s southern fried chicken is delicious but it is not, objectively, better than any other variation of fried chicken. Yet it is the Black folks fried chicken recipe; that of the Black folks with ancestors in the South to be precise, which has been revered all over the world for generations.