Thursday, March 12, 2009
By the Way / Hannan Arnold's Meat-and-Three Packs Heat in the Kitchen, Elsewhere
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM
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Over at Bites, Carrington Fox has the details on Arnold's Country Kitchen's new James Beard award. The outstanding Eighth Avenue meat-and-three is one of five restaurants to be named an American Classic by the esteemed foodies. 
Pith stumbled onto the scoop at lunch yesterday. We were sitting next to owner Jack Arnold as he was filmed by the Beard crew. Being nosy bastards, we couldn't help but overhear his between-takes conversation with the Israeli dude behind the camera.
The interviewer was from New York, and he made a passing comment to Arnold about Tennessee's loose gun laws, saying something like It couldn't be that dangerous down here, could it? To which Arnold said I'm always packing and proceeded to pat the bulge in the front pocket of his pants (quit yer gigglin'). Not wanting to interrupt an armed man, we asked Arnold's son Kahlil. He gave the confirmation that dad was indeed strapped.
"Its either the revolver or the .45," he said. "I think today it's the .45." At which point an aproned employee nodded in a way that seemed to suggest he knew of such things.
We left shortly thereafter. But not before making an exaggerated show of leaving two dollars on the table. We don't want no trouble, we swear.
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