Fried chicken poses wine question

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 3, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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