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This is Atlanta. We’re scrappy. Some of what we do lacks precision, but we’re passionate and we try and we’re not held to this unrealistic expectation of CUISINE, big type. There’s a comfort in even our high-end restaurants, a sense of community, a sense of personality that’s hard to find in the high-stakes, big money world of larger cities. This is the South, where you’re most likely to find God (or whatever you want to call it) in a strip mall. The best of what we do, the best of what we are, is hidden in the nooks. It isn’t easily found. That’s what makes it so much fun. There are places in this town, to eat, to drink, to live, that make my heart ache with pride. I haven’t felt that way since…well, since Brooklyn.
I sincerely, truly, really hope you get to that with Atlanta. We don’t want you to die down here.
"Excerpt, ”An Open Letter To Kim Severson”, by Besha Rodell for Atlanta’s Creative Loafing, 3.14.11
Beware the ides of March…
(Source: clatl.com)
