abstract:Hot chicken or Nashville hot chicken is a type of fried chicken that is a local specialty of Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. In its typical preparation, it is a portion of breast, thigh, or wing that has been marinated in buttermilk, breaded, sauced using a paste that has been heavily spiced with cayenne pepper, and pan-fried.
This is not simply spicy fried chicken, it is its own unique food group, found almost no place else (though I read about a Nashville hot fried chicken joint in Brooklyn), and it is not for the faint of heart.
"When you want to sell hot dogs, fried chicken, gyros and pizza, it's probably a good bet that you're not going to get a good slice of pizza, " said Mr. Riggio, who left his job as a lawyer to run the pizzeria after his father died in 2007.