Food of the Week: Fried Chicken



Red velvet fried chicken served with garlic cream cheese

mashed potatoes.



Buttermilk fried chicken frying in a pan.



Mmm, fried chicken; one of the best tasting comfort foods available. Fried chciken tastes great, it is usually crispy, with a thin crust. There are many different types of fried chicken such as southern fried, buttermilk, oven-fried, and even red velvet! There are many different types of fried chicken. Fried chicken is served in most countries all over the world. Suprisingly fried chicken did not originate in the US; it in fact orIginated in China; and was brought to the US by Scottish immigrants who settled in the southeastern US. In Scotland fried chicken was originally cooked in fat; not oil like most people do today. When fried chicken was brought to the US, African slaves made fried chicken with much more flavor and spices than the origian lversion. And that new version became the cbase for many fried chicken recipes we know today. Fried chicken is great; and there are many ways to get it, you can buy it from a store, make it yourself, eat it a resturant, and eat it at a fast food chain. One of those major fast food chains, KFC, has seen much conflixct there are many claims that they abuse and neglet their animals. PETA had a campaign against KFC becuase of the allegations. I would never eat KFC fried chicken; I have tried and did not like it at all. After I tried it for the first and last time, I felt sick and nauseous. And so I will never eat it again.



KFC buck of fried chicken(Ewww!)



Whenever I make fried chicken, I always buy free range, organic, local, and always humanly raised. Much chicken has antibiotics, and may not be humanly raised. I reccomend buying free range, or organic, or local, or humanely raised chicken. Overall fried chicken can be and is a great comfort food as long as you make it with good ingredients. And for a healthier option you can make it oven-fried. Over this week there will be many fried chicken recipes and more!