In my book Hog and Hominy http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14638-8/hog-and-hominy/excerpt, I talk about how in 1940s and 1950s New York City, Jazz enthusiast started eating fried chicken and waffles early on Sunday mornings after spending all night listening to bebop jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk. By the way check out Robin Kelley’s new biography of Monk—it’s a must read http://monkbook.com/. The legend goes that this northern soul food tradition began when artists in New York like Monk ordered chicken for breakfast after missing dinner on Saturday night because they were performing, and ordered waffles as hot bread to eat with the fried chicken. I learned at a book event that I did in New York City that rural white farm families in Pennsylvania Dutch Country have been eating a similar combination for years but made with smothered chicken with gravy. It makes since knowing that waffles culture here in North America started with Dutch immigrants. I argue that chicken and waffles is the perfect combo following a New Year’s Eve party in which you spent all night waiting for the ball to drop in Time Square or some other tradition that kept you up until the early morning today. Try making (or even better ordering) this early morning combo; I am sure you will be pleased and we can start a New Year's Day breakfast tradition.
Restaurants Known for Chicken and Waffles :
Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles, Los Angeles
The Corner Office Restaurant and Martini Bar, Denver
Lolo's Chicken and Waffles, Phoenix, Arizona
Gladys Knight and Ron Winans' Chicken & Waffles, of a chain with restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia, Lithonia, Georgia, Johns Creek, Georgia and Landover, Maryland near DC in The Boulevard at the Capital Centre
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