Cleveland

Every Recipe for Tennessee’s Hot Slaw Has a Different Secret Ingredient

“We are hot slaw,” says Ross Weaver, owner of The Chef, a burger joint in Cleveland, Tennessee. “People from 10 miles away don’t know what it is—even the next communities over, in Athens or Chattanooga, let alone 49 other states in this country.” And yet, according to Weaver, who grew up here, everyone in town has a closely guarded, and possibly hotly contested, recipe based on the original, cr…