I wrote last year about a trip I took with Jamie McAfee, the chef at the Pine Bluff Country Club, to the legendary Dixie Pig in Blytheville. After reading a column about Dixie Pig, McAfee contacted me and said his father once worked at the Blytheville Country Club. McAfee had been told that his father helped Dixie Pig s owner come up with the restaurant s signature blue cheese dressing recipe.
From New Jersey to California, and ice cream parlors to hotdog stands, these historic establishments have contributed to the American food scene for a century.
Fans of @ the Corner have been waiting years more than three years, in fact for sisters Lila and Helen Grace King and Kamiya Merrick (the chef), to open their second restaurant, Henrietta s, in the former Andina Cafe space in Little Rock s River Market District. And it has finally happened except, well, it isn t Henrietta s any more.