Kevin Sack of the NYTImes.com wrote an article about the Farmhouse, the restaurant at the Inn at Serenbe in Palmetto, Georgia. Renowned Atlantans, Steve and Marie Nygren, started it. It sounds like I need to plan a day-trip…….. at least for the fried chicken.
Today was unusual in that I met my brother-in-law for lunch at Matthews Cafeteria in Tucker, Georgia. We have hardly ever gotten together in 19 years and he said he owed me for lunch although I could not remember the last time I had bought him a meal. Anyway, he was adamant about it so I agreed even though I had asked him to meet.
Matthews was, in the last year, on one of the Food Network shows, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. You can guess which one it qualified under. After getting berated by my brother-in-law for getting a big piece of baked fish instead of country-fried steak, we found a table and caught up with each other’s lives. I had fried okra, greens, scalloped potatoes, and tea. It was all good and the workers were friendly. Here’s an article from the AJC about the show and filming at the landmark restaurant.
At the Gwinnett County Courthouse, I saw a flyer for the cemetery in Milledgeville. According to the website, Glennville has one too. Plans are for the Milledgeville memorial to be the last resting place for 100,000 veterans.
John Robert Conley 