Fried Chicken my Comfort Food

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Fried Chicken my Comfort Food
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Introduction
Food that offers someone a certain emotional feeling is termed as comfort food. Those
emotions maybe applicable to certain culture or specific to a particular person. Such food may
have certain calorific value, high levels of carbohydrates or can be easily prepared. Comfort food
benefits one by giving a good feeling, being used for self-medication and can be taken during
special occasions such as thanksgiving and birthdays. My comfort food of choice is fried chicken
(Avena, Gold, & Kroll, 2012).
It was on a holiday and we were on family trip when my parents took me to a restaurant
and ordered fried chicken for us, the kind of a meal that I had no experience with. We waited for
some minutes then very delicious, luscious nicely spiced fried chicken was served in a bucket. It
was my first time eating fried chicken and up to date it has remained to be my comfort food.
History of fried chicken
Fried chicken is an American English word that was first recorded in 1830s.This is a
meal made from chicken pieces mainly from chicken broilers. It is always floured then deep, pan
or pressure fried. Chicken is always cut at the joints and leave joints intact. The origin of fried
chicken is southern states of America where it was started by Scottish immigrants. Scottish
immigrants introduced unseasoned fried chicken technique afterwards seasoning was introduced
by West African people, the methods later adopted and combined by African-Americans and
African slaves who were living in south of America (Pereira, 2016).
During and after the Second World War chicken meat was very expensive and delicious
to most people but after development of intensive chicken husbandry in late 20th century and
early 21st century the price has gone down attributable to massive fried chicken production. The
basic method of cooking fried chicken was simple, chicken was split into tiny sections covered in
a batter which usually consisting of other ingredients such as flour and milk or eggs .Such
ingredients create crust on the outer part of the chicken meat. Seasoning process can be
implemented at this point before cooking. Cooking is done by either pan frying, deep frying or
pressure cooking then fried in cooking oil (Troisi, Gabriel, Derrick, & Geisler, 2015).
Since the introduction of fried chicken in South America, fried chicken has continued to
be the top choice worldwide leading to mass chicken production and modernized technologies of