I'll have the kids with me, so nothing too fancy.
Keep that up and you'll have a couple of scurvy victims on your hands.
I only know burgoo from CS Forester novels in which its appearance is a sign that all Hornblower's decent food has run out after six months at sea. So I can't imagine it's that nice.
There are two different sorts of burgoo, apparently; the naval one is just porridge, the US one a slow-cooked game stew. (And it's a great word to remember for the next time I have too many vowels in Bananagrams).
Interesting. Thanks.
Gradually vegetables lose all distinctive form and appearance and the compound is reduced to a homogeneous liquid, about the consistency of molasses. "Burgoo ought to boil about 14 hours," says the old expert, "we've only had about 8 for this, but I think they'll be able to eat it."
Good God.
Naval burgoo was presumably weevil stew, so actually the same thing.
5: not at all, and don't let N.A.M. Rodger hear you say that. The weevil thing is a Victorian fiction, like walking the plank, Vikings with horned helmets, and virtually everything ever written by Mark Twain.
How did they keep the biscuit fresh?
Baked the hell out of it and kept it dry, apparently.
I do not live in Louisville and haven't eaten burgoo ever and hot browns much, but the latter at least is worth a try IMO if you can handle gravy and so on. Um, there's a place somewhere by the university where my brother liked to get pizza with about two inches of cheese that still didn't seem to be what I'd consider Chicago style but more its own thing. I'm pretty sure every other restaurant I can think of has closed because I haven't been there in so long. (I think we're going to do a few days in Columbus as spring break again but presumably not do any interesting eating.)
Also doesn't Forrester have somebody feeding chickens on weevils?
Feeding them on meth and moonshine is more traditional
I recommend going to the art museum with no prior planning so you can say thinks like "I know this painting but I never noticed the monkey on a leash before."
The Loveless Café in Nashville sounds nice.
When I'm in Louisville I like to swing by Mark's Feed Store. The BBQ is just okay, but the fried sweet corn on the cob is a real treat.
Iron bars do not make a cage, nor vinyl seats a cafe.
"I know this painting but I never noticed the monkey on a leash before."
I have had precisely that thought -- I think there's something about the colors of the monkey that reproduces badly, so it blends into the background in a reproduction.
Burgoo is not life-changing (I guess if you can get someone to make it for you the traditional way--with squirrel--it could be, what with the prions) but it can be tasty. Harvest (on Market east of downtown) has good burgoo when it's on the menu, and there's very good burgoo at a butcher shop called Frank's, but it's a bit of a schlep from anywhere you're likely to be. (Mark's Feed Store, mentioned above, has "burgoo" but it's terrible.) The canonical spot for a hot brown is, of course, the Brown Hotel, but I'm more partial to The Cafe (a block or two south of Broadway, near but I don't think technically in the Highlands). Whether it's actually good or kind of disgusting depends on how you feel about rich sauces.
Re Louisville. For the love of god please don't eat a hot brown. In fact generally forget the food; focus on the bourbon. (The food can be quite good and restaurants overall are above average for a town of this size, but that is not the town's calling card.) I'll have a more comprehensive response later.
You should get those little caramel-covered marshmallows! I don't know exactly where, but I'm pretty sure they're from Louisville, and they're delightful.
I've never been to Nashville and have never had actual Nashville hot chicken, but I'm kind of obsessed with the Nashville-style hot chicken place in LA. You should go get hot chicken and then also go to the restaurant in LA, and tell me if I need to make the trip to Nashville or if I'm doing alright with my place here.
Many years ago, a place on the outskirts of Nashville made really fucking good chicken of various kinds......The Loveless Cafe. May have been ruined by TV, but was at least once the real deal.
In Louisville I really like Holy Grale, but it may be too fancy/boozy for kids?
In Nashville my favorite restaurant is Woodlands vegetarian Indian. I think post-renovation lunch is buffet-only, so I'd only recommend it for dinner. (Buffet is fine, but the real food is great.) I would suggest Gerst Haus, but they just closed. Probably not an option with kids, but The Station Inn is really fun Bluegrass concert venue.
Nashville has the largest Kurdish population in the US, so there should be somewhere to get great Kurdish food, but when I've searched on Yelp I haven't found anything too promising.
In Louisville I really like Holy Grale, but it may be too fancy/boozy for kids?
Holy Grale is great, but they literally won't let kids in the door -- it's 21+ only.
Thanks, all. I guess I'll just look for good food, rather than any specific kind. That makes life easier.
Arguably, "good" is a specific kind.
Hot browns are I think sorta what my sister and I used to call good-gross but I haven't had one in like 30 years so my actual opinion is even vaguer.
You can also try a regional soft drink, Ale 8, whose commercial I can still sing, but I think it just tastes like ginger ale. They do have a beverage called "bourbon" that many enjoy, as well.
I switched to Irish whisky lately. I'm angry at the south and lack a budget for Scotch.
Must read re Nashville: https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/how-nashville-became-one-big-bachelorette-party?utm_term=.imoVNQW7q#.nt8KDpNzx