[Chef David Simpson]

This weekend I visited my Mother down in Beaumont Texas and OOh the food! It was killer!! Just to wake in the morning and eat breakfast at the Blackeyed Pea and for lunch we went to The Catfish Kitchen. And Mom cooked dinner for me and wouldn't(that's the way moms are) let me help at all. Well, except for the dishes. Sorry I couldn't make the party. I bet it was fun.

Sounds great Chef David. Hubby and I are making our first trip to NC, SC, KY, TN in April and I'm hoping to taste some wonderful regional foods...southern cooking....<working out overtime to get ready for big vacation foodfest>

[Chef David Simpson]

Are you going to travel through Texas at all? Sounds like fun to me.

SeattleDeb:

If you get to Memphis, you have to try the BBQ.

Is it sick to plan your vacations around food??? <SMILE>....we do! Won't make it to Texas...but yessssss to Memphis bbq!

[shroomgirl]

Willinghams BBQ in Memphis and absolutely check out the Viking Culinary Center....omg!!!!!
Absolutely the most comprehensive cooking facility I've been in....they have classes available too...

[adenoma]

In Hornby, Tennessee, just a wide spot in the road, is a wonderful place called the Sharcropper's Inn, the southern version of a roadside diner. We discovered it in 1991 while making a "Blue Highways; cross-country trip. We dined on the most marvellous barbecue served on rolls with cole slaw added to the sandwich. This was strictly a local place, and we found ourselves being invited to take part in a birthday lunch for a nice old boy. In attendance were several daughters and their husbands, a gaggle of grandchildren, plus the old boy himself with wife and very elderly father. It was a most wonderful lunch, and we will never forget it.
Such instances don't come very often.