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Atlanta: 11 Food Trucks We Love
Thanks to some arcane provisions in Atlanta, food trucks were basically illegal except by special event permit before 2011. But thanks to a band of dedicated entrepreneurs, mobile chefs, fanatical foodies, and a few politicians sympathetic to the cause, there's an entire fleet of grub wagons pushing everything from tacos and arepas to popsicles and barbecue now. Here are 11 of our favorites on the streets right now.Market Scene: Marietta Square Farmers' Market in Georgia (with Recipes!)
I've had mixed luck with my farmers' market visits but they've all provided me with different opportunities. My favorite, hands down, is the Marietta Square Farmer's Market in Georgia. The sheer abundance at this market, the "community" feel, and the historical backdrop of Marietta Square, make for an incredible shopping experience. I knew since my last visit was in early spring, there would be a brand new crop of produce and goods to sample: bread, jerky, tomatoes, smoked mozzarella, and more. And nearly every produce booth had pumpkins, gourds and squashes of every shape, size and color.Market Scene: Cumberland United Methodist Church Farmers' Market in Atlanta
When at the tiny Cumberland United Methodist Church Farmers' Market in Atlanta recently, I grabbed some okra and muscadines to go home and make cornmeal pizza topped with goat cheese and muscadines, and mac and cheese with okra and grits.Market Scene: Smyrna Farmer's Market in Atlanta, Georgia
A friend recommended I visit the Smyrna Farmer's Market and I thought this would be a great subject for Serious Eats. The market turned out to be a very small outfit, maybe 10 vendors, in the First Baptist Church parking lot. I made the best of it and visited each vendor. They were a nice mix of wholesome products for the body (soap, lotion), produce (sweet potatoes, zucchini, crabapples) and even a few baked goods (Greek pastries and a retail chain bakery). Having never worked with crabapples before, I was intrigued. I purchased a few pounds of them and decided I'd make jelly.Market Scene: Atlanta State Farmers' Market (with Recipes!)
It's time for another weekly Market Scene dispatch. Each Monday, one of our various correspondents checks in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good. This week, we hear from Louise Brescia, who you may know better around these parts as chiff0nade. (Welcome to the other side, Chiffy!) Unfortunately it ain't peach season yet in Georgia, but she did find some good tomatillos, basil, baby mangoes, and Vidalia onions, and even shares her own original recipes for what to do with them!Notes from the South: Riblets, Smoked Chicken, and More at Rolling Bones Barbecue in Atlanta
[Photographs: Chichi Wang] More Notes from the South Wilber's Barbecue and Currituck BBQ Company » Flip Burger Boutique in Atlanta » Busy Bee in Atlanta » The mighty Appalachian Trail begins in Georgia where the Chattachoogee Mountain Range, dense with towering pines and oak, sprawls over much of the land north of Atlanta. Dusk was setting in as our Prius clung to the dirt road winding up the side of the mountain; having chosen the wrong fork in the road, we made our sojourn back down with little light. By the time we finally reached Atlanta, the city was dark and the streets on which we drove, deserted. Rolling Bones Barbecue shined like a beacon of barbecue light, the...Notes from the South: Chitterlings from Busy Bee in Atlanta
Our Nasty Bits columnist is on a road trip down south! Today she checks in with us with thoughts on a Southern offal delicacy. [Photograph: Chichi Wang] "I'll take a plate of your chit-ter-lings, please," I told my waitress. "What was tha', sugar?" she replied. I paused, then thought better. "I mean, your chit-linz," I said. "Oh, the chiltlins!" she said in a moment of recognition. "Sure thing, hon." Chitterlings, or chitlins, are pork intestines in Southern soul food cookery. And that conversation? Just took place in the South. Atlanta, Georgia, to be exact. I'm on a quest for the most barbeque-lickin', pie-dishin', offal-lovin' joints across the grand old American south. I've dived into plates of deep-fried chicken livers, gnawed...Chef Siblings: Beyond the BroVos
[Photograph: Bravo] The rise of Top Chef's Voltaggio brothers has gotten me thinking about other prominent chef siblings. The stoic, talented BroVos have just launched a blog and in a few post-Top Chef interviews they've mentioned the possibility of working together in the future. Have other chef sibs succeeded in business together? Definitely. Bob and David Kinkead Bob's a well-known chef based in Washington D.C., David in Massachusetts—already they have a 5-year-old Boston restaurant called Sibling Rivalry. Too bad they got their hands on that name before the Voltaggios. Nothing could be more fitting after their intense neck-in-neck competition in Vegas. The Kinkeads' menu concept is interesting: it showcases dueling interpretations of each ingredient. For example, David's duck entree:...Unique Food Trends: Atlanta
Atlanta Journal-Constitution dining writer John Kessler chimes in with a few food trends buzzing in Atlanta right now. Pizza Wars Margherita pie from Varasano's. [Flickr: The Blissful Glutton] The opening of Varasano's Pizzeria has kicked off a new age of pizza one-upmanship in Atlanta that online pundits have dubbed the "Pizza Wars." Varasano, as Slice readers should know, is the displaced New Yorker who spent years trying to reverse engineer the pies from Patsy's. He detailed his experiments, scientific conclusions, and raucous pizza-tasting parties on a webpage that went viral in 2006. A first-time restaurateur, Varasano opened to consistency issues with his sourdough crust and mixed reviews from local critics. But he can make some phenomenal pies in his custom-designed...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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