Meet the New Meat

Hello, Bites aficionados.  It's your new correspondent, Chris

Chamberlain.  You may have seen me lurking around the Bites comments as

CeeElCee.  I make no apologies for the dimwitted handle but offer the

fact that it harkens back to an ancient AOL login as a testament to the

length of my tenure in the online world.  I am very pleased that

Carrington and Nicki have invited me to step out from behind the

pseudonym and go completely cognito here.

When I told a friend I

was considering the gig, she asked, "Are you going to replace Lee

Stabert?"  Considering she is attractive, young and enthusiastic,

probably not.  But do I think I can consume some bandwidth and offer

Bites readers my insights into the Nashville Foodie Scene?  Heck yeah,

I can do that.  I'll also make an ignorant admission about Lee: for the

first few months she was blogging for Bites, I thought she was a gay

man.

[Insert Seinfeld "not that there's anything wrong with that" reference here]

In

my defense, she did have a unisex first name, was unmarried, lived in a

charming part of East Nashville, liked to eat in precious little

bistros and kept referring to her regular dining partner as

"companion."  Upon reflection, you can substitute "Hillsboro Village"

for "East Nasty" in the previous sentence, and you'll pretty much have

me nailed.  So maybe I can replace her, the same way that

Steven Wright said he had the ax that George Washington used to cut

down the cherry tree.  He just had to replace the handle.  And the

head.  But it occupies the same space, intrinsically.

What  I really want to replace is her standing reservation at City House.  Tandy, table for 2?