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Article: Fried Green Tomatoes
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2005
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CONCORD, N.H.- The first time I made fried green tomatoes I was
living in Scotland. Where else to try such an archetypal food from
the American South?
I was young and impressionable and had just finished reading
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," a novel by Fannie
Flagg. Merits of the plot aside, I was taken by the book's
description of its namesake dish.
Handily, a section of recipes was included at the back of the
book. I was inspired.
Inspired enough to bundle up and drag my housemate into the frigid
Scottish winter in search of the relatively simple ingredients - corn
meal, salt, pepper, bacon fat and - duh! - green tomatoes.
The corn meal, salt and pepper were easy to come ...