Georgia is a state of tremendous culinary contrast, from the most gracious Old-South tea rooms and dress-up Sunday suppers to raffish barbecue parlors and cheap-eats diners with waitresses who call you Hon’. Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta boast stylish eateries where chefs’ personalities rule, as well as all manner of ethnic fare from around the world and inventive counter-culture cookery. The state’s most distinctive ways of eating are Lowcountry feasts and oyster roasts, meat-and-three meals in small-town cafes, and old-style boarding house suppers. Must-eat dishes include fried chicken, chopped and vividly sauced barbecued pork (accompanied by either Brunswick stew or hash on rice), hand-pattied biscuits, Dixie dogs, caramel cake, and anything made from peaches.
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Brunswick Stew is a fundamental side dish for barbecue in Georgia and beyond. Originally made as a hunter's gallimaufry using whatever critters had been bagged and whatever vegetables were...
