by Martha Howson and Jody Nickerson
Adapted from a previous project by the Galileo Network

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"The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right next door to me at the post office, and owners Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison said business has been good ever since." (Dot Weems, The Weems Weekly, Whistle Stop, Alabama, June 12, 1929.)

But fried green tomatoes are not the only vegetables that are on the menu at The Whistle Stop Cafe. You can have fried okra, collard or turnip greens, black-eyed peas, candied yams, butter beans or lima beans.

And if vegetables are not your fancy, then how about a special serving of Big George's special barbecue? You may never want to eat at home again!