ISSUE 26, BREAKFAST, Part 6: Chicken & Waffles
The famous dish from south . . . Pennsylvania
Chicken & Waffles
Culinary history is rarely as straightforward as people want it to be. Origin stories are notoriously vulnerable to dismantling. And knowing the origin of something does not (sorry Hegel) predispose subsequent trajectories of use or histories of meaning. I mean – Orange marmalade as a signature of Scotland (hardly a hotbed of citrus…