The history of fried chicken in America traces back to enslaved cooks, waiter carriers, and the enterprising Black entrepreneurs of early Virginia
Although Williams-Forson published her book in 2006, she still believes not much has changed since the dish was first brought to the American South. “Africans were frying food before coming to America,” she says. “When that mechanism came to the South, it was over-perfected by Black women. As evidenced by the
Gordonsville is about 20 miles outside of Charlottesville, and with the advent of the Louisa Railroad in 1840, it became a major stop on two train lines. When a train arrived in the station to drop off passengers or pick them up, they were met by the smells wafting through the open train windows of fried chicken and other baked goods that Black women carried in baskets on their heads.
“I won’t separate from my culture,” she says. “Black chefs are rare and can tell the story now and can change the narrative.”
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