Dining Notes
Southern eating
For decades, Southern Living magazine has chronicled in text and photography the lifestyle of the South, from Richmond to Mobile, from Charleston to Little Rock. Eating and cooking is at the heart of that lifestyle (though not always heart-healthy); the test kitchens at Southern Progress, the magazine’s parent company, are in the heart of the luxuriously landscaped corporate campus in Birmingham.
Southern Living readers can get a peek into those kitchens—and much more—on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 27-28, when the second annual Southern Living Cook-Off 2003 comes to the Opryland Hotel. The multi-event weekend will be hosted by a man who knows something about eating—or not—Al Roker, The Today Show weatherman.
The Cook-Off will pit 15 already chosen finalists against one another in a battle of the recipes; the Grand Prize winner goes home with $100,000. If it happens to be Susan Rotter, she won’t have to go far: Rotter lives in Nashville, and her Southern-Fried Stuffed Chicken With Roasted Red Pepper and Vidalia Onion has been entered in the Taste of the South category.
In addition to the Cook-Off, attendees can visit Kitchen on Tour, a traveling exhibit filled with kitchen design ideas. A “Secrets of Southern Living” champagne brunch, hosted by Southern Living editor John Floyd, is set for Sept. 28 at 10 a.m. Tickets for that event, which include brunch and the Secrets From Southern Living Test Kitchens cookbook, are $55 and can be reserved by calling (888) 997-9672. Tickets for the Cook-Off are $10.95.
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