Don't Ask Me Why
Dear Krystal,We've been together a long time, and exclusively for a few years now, haven't we? It's been a good time, and I have no complaints, honestly. But I find myself in the awkward position of...
View ArticleSatterfield's, Macon GA
This is Marie, contributing a brief article about a place I stopped to eat (and exercise the baby) on my way back from a trip to visit my folks. Anyone who had done road trips with me in the past 20...
View ArticleDough in the Box, Marietta GA
I continue to be pleasantly surprised to find successful restaurants in the suburbs that mostly avoid online notice or raving. Now, it's certainly true that I do have one of my fellow bloggers,...
View ArticleBlue Moon Pizza, Marietta GA
A couple of Saturdays ago, we made some plans and, helplessly, watched them get derailed by everything that could go wrong over the course of an afternoon this side of a car fire. Part of those plans...
View ArticleDefining Tacos
We should probably all agree that there must be at least two types of hot dogs.It really feels like The Atlanta Journal-Constitution polls its readers every other month on the best of this food in...
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 1
Back before Christmas, Marie mentioned that she'd be taking the baby for a trip to visit her family in early February, just the two of them. I realized that we could each have road trips. Sadly, the...
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 2
Shortly after Marie and I started the blog, we took a trip to Tallulah Falls and found our way to a joint called Hawg Wild in Clarkesville. There, I found the first example of white barbecue sauce that...
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 3
I'd only been to Tuscaloosa once before, in June of last year, when we went through on our way to Starkville, stopping for a couple of meals on our way back. I'd like to linger a little longer...
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 4
So, the situation as I was leaving Tuscaloosa was this: the sun had gone down, I was completely full, albeit well under budget, I'd met some great people and enjoyed some terrific scenery, but I was on...
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 5
When I woke on Saturday, I surprised myself by being a little hungry. After all that I ate on Friday, I didn't expect that, but I also knew that I'd be eating a little less on this day, and light...
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 6
I heard a story once. Seems there were some pledges at an Alabama fraternity. Two were from Birmingham and two were from Montgomery. The two from Birmingham were waxing eloquent about Pete's Hot Dogs....
View ArticleCircumnavigating Alabama - Part 7
At last, my trip had brought me to Montgomery, and it was time to start heading home. I had decided to go north via US-231, which connects Alabama's capital with the towns of Oxford and Anniston at...
View ArticleVillage Burger, Dunwoody GA
Sometimes, a restaurant will show up featured on the much-loved Roadfood.com and I will have no idea why. So it is with this fairly new little place in Dunwoody, Village Burger, that opened about a...
View ArticleThe Festival of Dairy
This is Marie, contributing an article about a day of excessive indulgence we have called The Festival Of Dairy. As regular readers of the blog may have noticed, I have been avoiding dairy since we...
View ArticleJalisco, Atlanta GA
In January, I wrote about the popular Nuevo Laredo Cantina, and noted then that every three or four months, I get a little peckish for El-This-Los-That Atlanta-styled "Mexican" food. The story goes...
View ArticleDixie Freeze, South Pittsburg TN
For many, many years, I have told myself that one of these days, I was going to go visit Nashville and take US-41 to get there. Last weekend, Marie and I finally did this, taking the baby and the...
View ArticleCBQ, Smyrna TN
Our trip to Nashville did not go as planned.Returning to US-41 in the town of Jasper, my idea was to drive at a leisurely pace and stop wherever the roadside lured us. In one instance, this worked out...
View ArticlePepperfire Spiced Chicken, Nashville TN
Nashville is the world's home of hot fried chicken, and, as we learned from our visit last time to the legendary Prince's, the city is not kidding at all when they say "hot." No, sir. However the spice...
View ArticleReturn Visits to Two Favorites in Nashville TN
It worked out that on our trip to Nashville, I had an appetizer at one restaurant, a main course at a second, and a dessert at a third. I think that I'd do that every evening if only I could.We drove...
View ArticleThe Barbecue Dynasty of Huntsville AL
Ever since we started this blog, I have wanted to go back to the great city of Huntsville and pay a visit. I had only been here once before - like millions of kids around the southeast, I took an...
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