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The Search For America's Best Hot Dog: Down South

So far, we've told you about the East Coast contenders. Now it's time to move down South. Before this journey, the South was a bit of a mystery to us in terms of hot dogs. I had a vague notion of slaw dogs being pretty good, but the region is more often than not overlooked in the hot dog media.The reality is that hot dogs are everywhere below the Mason-Dixon line, as much or more so than other areas considered to be the epicenters of hot doggery. Here are our 16 favorites.

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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.

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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.

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Pecans, the Other Georgia Nut

I spend a lot of time in Georgia. I have to, it's where the peanuts are! In fact, Georgia farmers grow almost 50% of all the peanuts in the United States. But Georgia farmers don't stop there. Anyone from Georgia will tell you about the Three P's: Peanuts, Peaches, and Pecans. Three delicious foods that are as synonymous with Georgia as well, just about anything.

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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.

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Market Scene: Marietta Square Farmers' Market in Marietta, Georgia (with Recipes!)

I enjoyed strolling through the Marietta Square Farmer's Market in Marietta, Georgia, over the weekend. This market is heavy on artisan products—they had everything from Old World-style baguettes (snagged one), goat cheese (that too), meat pot pies, decorated cupcakes and cakes, and several vendors with jams. Check out the photos and my many original recipes for peach salsa, peach scones, chilled peach soup, chipotle peach jam (can you ever have too many peach recipes?) and fried green tomatoes.

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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!

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Notes from the South: Meat-and-Threes in Georgia

In the South, you won't have a problem finding meat-and-threes—a meat entrée accompanied by three sides. Here's are photos of meat-and-threes from a few places in Georgia.

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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...

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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...

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