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Article: Fried chicken poses wine question
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 3, 1999
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I know this question comes up all the time in your house: What
wine should we drink with fried chicken?
Fried chicken, of course, has been given a bad name. First,
it's fried; that's enough to send most people of delicate, fin de
siecle sensibility racing for the door. Second, the best part, that
crisp fried skin, is about as good for you as an isotope of
fissionable material dropped into your coffee cup.
Still, fried chicken is as American as Mom, apple pie and B-1
bombers. What would the farmhouse cuisine of the Midwest and the
South be without fried chicken? More fat-free, that's for sure, but
nary a home kitchen or home-cooking restaurant by fruited plain or
cotton patch doesn't ...