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KFC vs Lee's: Finding the Real Kentucky Fried Chicken

Growing up there were two fried chicken places in my hometown: Lee's Famous Recipe (known over the years as Famous Recipe and later just Lee's) and KFC (formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken). KFC was Coca Cola while Lee's was RC Cola in that KFC had way better marketing and national distribution. But I decided it was finally time to go beyond my childhood biases and superficial rankings and take a true Kentucky fried chicken challenge.

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Hot Dog of the Week: Alligator Coney, Northern Kentucky

The standard Cincinnati Coney is about four inches, only slightly bigger than the Troy NY Mini-Dogs but smaller than a Southern ten-pound hot dog, and covered with heavily spiced Cincinnati Chili. The Alligator ($1.59) starts with the same small pink hot dog, but it's covered in a massive pile of shredded neon yellow cheese, and instead of chili, a crisp pickle spear and plenty of mayonnaise. Sound weird? It was great.

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Cadiz, Kentucky: Doug Freeman, Ham Man

Editor's note: Occasionally what looks at first glance to be a conventional guidebook transcends the genre in surprising ways. John T. Edge's Southern Belly is just such a read, which is why I'm pleased that he has allowed us to excerpt selected items from it on Serious Eats, where they appear every other week. —Ed Levine By John T. Edge | The Italians wouldn't put up with this. Imagine some governmental agency coming between the good citizens of Rome and their supply of prosciutto di Parma. And you can be sure that the French would raise a ruckus if Parisians were cut off from their artisanal sources for saucisson sec. But for the most part, we Southerners just knuckled under...

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Southern Foodways: Bar Culture in Louisville, Kentucky — An Oral History Project

Louisville is awash in bourbon. And beer. It's a drinking person’s town, due in no small part to the state’s bourbon heritage and the city’s nickname-namesake brewery, Falls City. This is where the Old Fashioned was invented. It’s where Al Capone dodged the law during prohibition. And it’s where barkeeps plied their customers with rolled oysters and bean soup to keep them coming back.

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The Best Chef's Tables in the U.S.

The chef's table—where you sit in or very near the kitchen to get a bird's eye view of the proceedings while a special meal is cooked for you—is a concept many serious food lovers find appealing. ForbesTraveler.com gives its list of the nine best examples in the U.S....

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Best Fried Chicken In Northern Kentucky

"Here's how much people love the fried chicken at Greyhound Tavern: On Mondays and Tuesdays, when most restaurants are stone cold dead, it's fried chicken night at the Greyhound and guests without reservations have to wait 30 minutes for a table. The fish is so good Greyhound has been "retired" from most of those Lenten fish fry competitions because it won so often." According to the Cincinnati Enquirer's Jim Knippenberg, Fort Mitchell's Greyhound Tavern is the longest continuously operating restaurant in Northern Kentucky, having first opened its doors in 1921 during Prohibition as an ice-cream parlor called the Dixie Tea Room....

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Roadfood Roundup: Fried Chicken

For this week's roundup, we asked our friends Jane and Michael Stern over at Roadfood.com to name some of their fried-chicken picks. And the chicken at these joints comes with a heaping side order of charm.

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