Review
"A train ride took me out of South Carolina as a little girl, but I can still remember feasting on fried catfish sandwiches as the South slipped behind me. To this day, fried chicken, grits, collard greens--with no fatback, of course--and sweet potato pie are the foods of home that I cherish and crave. 'New York's 50 Best Places to Eat Southern' can lead everyone to those comforts. That's such a wonderful thing, because Southern food is food that warms the heart." --
Eartha Kitt"I sure wish I'd had this book when I lived in New York. Even reading it now that I'm back down home makes my mouth water. It would be silly to go to New York from North Carolina to eat Southern food, but this book makes me want to do it." --
John Shelton Reed, author of "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South" and "Whistling Dixie""This is your Duncan Hines ticket to down-home cooking in the Big Apple, your Gotham Underground Gourmet, your classic entree to entrees you'd never have dreamed of finding anywhere north of Richmond. 'New York's 50 Best Places to Eat Southern' is more unerring than a hush-puppy-sniffing hound. It'll flat get you to the table quicker than you can flip a hoecake. With this bundle of choices, I'll never miss a meal in Manhattan again--or Queens, or Brooklyn." --
John Egerton, author of "Southern Food: at Home, on the Road, in History"It's summertime in New York City, you want some good barbecue and you don not want to cook it. You also want something good to drink. You need to pick up New York's 50 Best Places to Eat Southern by Bruce Lane and Scott Wyatt, two transplanted Southerners who wrote this guide out of homesickness for the food they grew up on.
Just reading the restaurant descriptions will make you salivate and get you going to try out these places. Informative details about Southern food, culture and vocabulary are provided, along with a glossary of terms and a list of recommended Southern cookbooks -- New York Press, July 1-7, 1998
This book is right about the places in it where I have eaten, and I intend to eat in as many of the others as I can before I die." -- Roy Blount, Jr.
From the Publisher
Southernisms, anecdotes, picky palates, and valuable resources...Wyatt and Lane dish up a sassy, slangy insider's look into a world of comfort foods that most New Yorkers never knew existed. Over one-third of their down-home listings have never even been covered by any other Gotham restaurant guide! These expatriates bring a long-overdue Southern voice to the New York restaurant world.
