One story of the history of chicken & waffles begins in Harlem in the 1930s. Specifically, a restaurant named the Wells Supper Club is listed as the origin of the recipe. Chicken and waffles were on the menu at this Harlem restaurant back during the jazz era of music.

Food scholars have plenty of origin theories about chicken and waffles. Many of them declare that a 1930s Harlem restaurant named Wells Supper Club came up with the notion of serving crispy thighs alongside deep-pocketed batter, or that the practice started with Pennsylvania Dutch home cooks of the 1600s.

Realistically, chicken and waffles emerged in American cuisine as an intermixing of two culinary traditions; the food of European settlers, mainly German and Dutch, and African-American cuisine.

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The earliest American chicken and waffle combination appears in Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1600's, when home cooks made waffles and topped them with pulled chicken and gravy.

Waffles have been around for a long time. Food experts think they go back to ancient Greece. There, chefs roasted flat cakes between metal plates fixed to long wooden handles. The Greeks called these cakes obelios, and they weren't as sweet as modern waffles.

A traditional story about the origin of the dish in soul food states that because African Americans in the South rarely had the opportunity to eat chicken and were more familiar with flapjacks or pancakes than with waffles, they considered the dish a delicacy.

This indulgent combo is well known in the American South today, but it has roots in Pennsylvania Dutch country, where waffles were sometimes topped with pulled chicken, and in Harlem, where a supper club created the breakfast-dinner mashup for musicians who would arrive too late for dinner and too early for breakfast.

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NY school apologizes. Students at a New York middle school were served chicken, waffles and watermelon for dessert on the first day of Black History Month, its principal said, sparking outrage among parents.

Joseph T. Wells, a marketing-savvy entrepreneur, seized on the market opportunity and popular demand by creating a fried chicken and waffles as a dinner-breakfast hybrid.

In Medieval Europe, the Catholic Church began making waffles to serve as a sort of companion to the communion wafer symbolizing blessings. These waffles were drawn with Biblical scenes, crosses, and other religious symbols, and were served after meals as a symbolic final blessing.

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Since their bones have not calcified completely, pigment from the bone marrow can seep through the porous bones. When the chicken is cooked, the pigment turns dark. Freezing can also contribute to this seepage. It's perfectly safe to eat chicken meat that turns dark near the bone during cooking.