Response to Food Blog: Alexis Noel

Food! What a wonderful, delicious topic that is! If the south knows one thing, it's definitely food. I live on the edge of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, right in-between the college town of UNC and the true country living of Chatham County. Right in that area can be found some wonderful, true southern restaurants.

For example, if you were to visit the campus of UNC, you could stop by a little place called 'Breadmans'. I have been going to this restaurant since I could first walk. As soon as you step into this restaurant, you are bombarded with UNC memorabilia, UNC flags, UNC everything. College students seat you to a table and you glance at a menu where you can order breakfast for dinner: fried eggs, hash browns, heaps of grits. However, I prefer to order my favorite steak sandwich with coleslaw on the side.

A few miles away from the campus, in the true 'farmville' of North Carolina, you can find a little shack called 'Allen and Son Barbecue'. Introduced on Food Network a few years ago, it still holds as one of the best barbecue joints in the entire state. You drive a few miles past some fields, country houses (and my home) and right on the side of the road sits this goldmine for barbecue lovers. You enter the shack and sit down at a table covered in a plastic UNC tablecloth. The waitress hands you a menu, which basically says "are you having barbecue, or are you having barbecue?" You order barbecue with a sweet tea, and in a few moments she hands you a steaming plate of barbecue on two buns. Absolutely delicious!