Three young friends set up a fried chicken pop up in a Hollywood parking lot. The rest is the stuff of legend.

But despite the secrecy of the family’s technique and the deliciousness of its mythology, hot chicken grew into an icon, claimed and modified and adored by cooks from all over. At Hotville ...

Fried chicken is as emblematic of the US South as collard greens and sweet potato pie. But it may be more Scottish than Southern. “In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a ...