Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Restaurants Garden & Gun Magazine Features Nashville
Posted by Carrington Fox on Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:05 AM
Writers Marshall Chapman and Jim Myers and photographer Caroline Allison made me so proud of my hometown in the November issue of Garden & Gun magazine. Their spread on Nashville put the city in its best light, with culinary nods to Arnold’s Country Kitchen, Margot Café, Marché, The Standard and Martha’s at the Plantation.
In the same issue, Southern Foodways Alliance kingpin John T. Edge assembled a list of 100 Southern Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before You Die. Nashville had a respectable share of the must-eats—including Arnold’s fried green tomatoes, Martin’s redneck tacos, Prince’s chicken, Bolton’s hot fish sandwich and the pork neck bones and rice at The Sands (formerly Silver Sands).
I’ve got no quarrel with any of those choices, but I bet Bites could make a case for getting a few more Middle Tennessee landmarks in the Southern 100. Am I right? Who would you nominate for the best Southern foods?
While you’re at it, take a look at G&G’s list and see how many of the top 100 you’ve tasted.
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This magazine is my new guilty pleasure. Normally I don't feel guilt about pleasure, but when the fetish object is half glossy Vanity Fair-style slab of New Southern wealth porn...well, some amends are in order. But man, is it fun to read. And there's a big feature on Barry Hannah to boot.
I've tried too few of the items on the list to mention. But the subtle dig at our indigenous hot fish sandwich—as if it were just dribbled with hot sauce and mustard because the makers were too lazy to go the extra mile with cayenne—should not be tolerated. That's like complaining fried chicken is only battered in flour, when it could be oven-roasted in tarragon and a fennel reduction. This aggression will not stand, etc.
I love whoever described G&G as a magazine written by Democrats for Republicans. But if anything can unite both sides of the aisle, it's hot chicken—either in huzzahs or gastric distress.
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I spent 3 years living literally around the corner from Goode Company Seafood in Houston and I NEVER WENT. I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive myself.
I have never left the great state of Tennessee for more than two weeks at a time. I am Southern. But I've not been to any place on that list except Waffle House.
I can't think of any other Middle Tennessee specialties other than the sweet potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry. But I'm really sad that the key lime donut at Donut Hole in Destin didn't get a mention. And the fried dill pickles at the Hollywood Cafe in Robinsonville, Mississippi.
Smoked chicken wings from Slick Pig in Murfreesboro. And a Rice's country ham...
As pleased as I am to see my hometown and its culinary traditions receive any sort of positive publicity, I'm even more...intrigued by the notion that there IS a Garden & Gun magazine.
No spice round(s)?
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I agree on all the G&G guilty pleasure talk. I never buy it, but I've been known to read a copy cover-to-cover when I come across one. Reminds me of why I like to visit Charleston, but also why I'd never want to live there.
