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Fried chicken, collard greens, and cornbread. See what goes into one of the many classes offered at the Viking Cooking School. More

Huey's plump, juicy burgers are deservedly famous in Memphis. Don't forget to launch your toothpick. More

24 hours a day, get a great onion-studded burger steamed under an old greasy hubcap in this French Quarter diner. More

There's almost always a line of people outside Acme Oyster House waiting to have some of the restaurant's famous fresh harvested oysters. In the evenings that line may stretch up Iberville back to Bourbon and further, and the wait can exceed an hour. Sometimes more. There are all sorts of things on the menu, but most people are coming from the oysters. More

Sustainability meets old-style Arkansas at this charming little South Main Street lunch spot. From bun to bun, everything here is locally raised and made, resulting in a refreshingly good burger. More

Traveling to New Orleans? Take in a primer on Southern food at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, where you'll find information on everything from boudin to barbecue. More

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We set out to document every single po'boy at the Oak Street Po' Boy Festival. The selection was impressive, ranging from traditional po' boys with fried shrimp and cochon de lait (roasted pork), as well as several versions of debris (beef in gravy), and some truly inventive po' boys. Actually, many of these wouldn't even qualify as true po' boys. Bananas foster po' boy? Sashimi po' boy? We can hear the purists grumbling now. But we tried them all anyways. Here are 25 of the best and strangest sandwiches at the festival. More

What's better than cornbread? Having this many sorts of cornbread with friends right in the middle of Main Street in Little Rock at the inaugural Arkansas Cornbread Festival. Organized in and around the Bernice Garden, a privately owned public art garden, the event was expected to draw 800 to 1,000 people. Instead, three times that many showed up, ready to eat cornbread. More

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This is it. The last stop in our quest to chronicle this year's top fair foods. We headed to Shreveport, Louisiana, for the 102nd State Fair of Louisiana. Until November 13th (note: the fair is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays), some 450,000 people will come out to enjoy the zoo, the circus, the midway and of course a whole lot of food. What's hot at the fair? The hot stuff. That is, the spicy regional items; from crawfish and crabmeat boudin to habanero peanut brittle. More

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Lots of new items are available in Little Rock this week for the 72nd Arkansas State Fair , which takes place from October 14 through 23. This year at the Midway and the food court, the emphasis seems to be on hot and spicy, with entries such as Jalapeño Lemonade and Nuclear Wings. Non-fried options such as the Rabbit Sandwich, MOINK Balls, and the BBQ Parfait are also popular. But of course you'll still find your Deep-Fried Watermelon on a Stick and Deep-Fried Corn-on-the-Cob, because what would the fair be without those? More

Hundreds of thousands of people will be converging at the Texas State Fair this month. Many will seek out the winner of the "Most Creative" title of the Big Tex Choice Awards: Fried Bubblegum. Our warning: don't be that guy. You will regret it. More

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The Texas State Fair runs from September 30 to October 23. Sure there are funnel cakes and corn dogs, but this mega fair has far more to offer. We were there when the gates opened at 10 a.m. on opening day and over the next 10 hours, got into just about every nook and cranny, sampling any and every food we could find. Here are the 25 favorites, a good number of which are deep-fried, ball-shaped, or both (kraut balls, fried meatballs, Kool-Aid balls). More

Thousands turned out for the second annual World Cheese Dip Championship after last year's super successful showing. This year the venue was moved to the much larger War Memorial Stadium to accommodate the bigger turnout. Competitors were asked to come with ten gallons each of cheese dip. Arkansawyers sure love their cheese dip! More

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Crazy fair foods are nothing new. We found several great new fair foods, a couple of scary ones, and one new fair delight that won't disturb your waistline. More

A budding new chain hopes to capture the eco-happy market by taking burgers back to the basics. Coal Burger coal-roasts its farm-raised beef and serves it on custom buns in a high fructose corn syrup-free zone. More

What do you do when your child wants something very, very special for a special occasion—and it just can't be found anywhere? In some cases, you go to extremes. In the case of Mary Jo Selig and Clare Thomas Williams, you start a company and make your own specialty macarons. More

Chris Monroe is a man with an obsession. That obsession is called Hunka Pie, and it's become the premiere pie stand in Little Rock, Arkansas. Usually you'll find anywhere from five to eight different pies on the menu. But a while back Chris came up with an unusual idea: he decided to bake 100 different pies in a single night for sale in a grand pie extravaganza the next day. More

This classic streamline-style diner serves up diner favorites including griddle-smashed burgers and shakes at Oak Tree Inns nationwide. Their featured burger: the 2/3-pound Build-Your-Own Monster Burger, which you can customize with as many toppings as you want for no extra charge. More

This old country-style dairy diner is still serving up burgers and shakes to hungry tourists and patient locals in rural southwest Arkansas. More

The one sandwich that comes to mind for anyone who's ventured through the door at Jimmy's Serious Sandwiches is The Garden ($6.95). Back in 1979 it won the first place in the National Sandwich Contest. Though the recipe for the sandwich is actually posted on the wall next to the door, few actually make it at home. They'd rather get their fix in the restaurant or in a lunch box to go. More

Alma is better known for its association with Popeye the Sailor Man than Blondie, but a version of the famed Dagwood Sandwich, which we've had on the brain lately, can be found at The Red Rooster Bistro. More

A small town in the Ozarks of Arkansas manages to make a buffalo burger that's not just sustainable, organic, and locally produced, but tasty as well. More

Midtown Billiards isn't just for locals. It's just for locals who don't mind braving the smoke and strangeness at odd hours of the night for a cold draft beer with a cumin-laden burger on a buttered bun. More

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The New Orleans Roadfood Festival brings together dozens of the nation's best highway-side eateries to share American favorites with a hungry crowd of thousands. See what eats topped our list of favorites. More

How long does it take to consume a 340 foot long oyster po'boy sandwich? About a minute and a half. That's what I learned last weekend during the 5th Annual Oysters Jubilee on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Thirty of New Orleans' popular restaurants took part in creating what became the World's Longest Oyster Po'Boy Sandwich, an event that first began in 2007. More