Regional Food

Here at The Big Stick we have been lucky enough to do quite a bit of traveling in the last few years. When we’re on the road, it often seems we spend more time planning where our next meal will be than where we are resting our heads at night. If there’s one thing I have learned it is that food is one of the key components of culture and that one of the best ways to understand a place you visit is to try the food.

To help encourage the gastro-travel bug in our readers, we would like to solicit some entries for the best local food in your home town. We’re not looking for restaurant suggestions. What we are looking for is that one dish or style of cooking that says, “THIS is where I live.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To get us started I am submitting my favorite dish on earth, the Louisville Hot Brown. This dish is amazing in its simplicity. Good for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Hot Brown defines ‘comfort food’. It’s bread, turkey, mornay sauce, bacon and tomatoes. That’s it. I’ve written poetry about this dish. Whenever a new restaurant opens in town, if a Hot Brown is on the menu, I try that first.

So now on to our readers. Please submit your entries via the comments and let the drooling start!