GUEST COLUMN: The compass in your stomach
'Regional treasures' are getting harder to find
Posted: September 4, 2009 at 6:28 a.m.
There was a time in these United States when you knew where you were by the kind of food you were served. Take barbecue. Pig slowly cooked in an earthen pit served up with a yellow mustard-based sauce - it must be the low country of South Carolina. A barbecue sandwich with a sweet tangy sauce, with coleslaw right on top of the meat - it must be Memphis. Beef brisket, slow roasted over an open mesquite flame on a turning spit - why, that's west Texas.
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Opinion, Pages 4 on 09/04/2009
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