Grit Cookbook World-Wise, Down-Home Recipes

Hands down, The Grit is a Southern, vegetarian institution. In Athens, Georgia, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a musician, artist, or writer. The Grit, housed in a nineteenth-century hardware and tackle store in the quintessential boho college town, is a favorite hang-out with musicians as diverse as Widespread Panic, R.E.M., John Berry, Kenny Rogers, the B-52s, and Elephant-Six bands and many others. Featured in Rolling Stone and Vegetarian Times, everyone is attracted to the uniquely quirky atmosphere of this popular destination restaurant, where tweed-jacketed profs from the local university are tucked in beside pink-haired skate punks and laid-back hippies dine with high-performance cyclists.True to its Southern roots, the menu of Athens, Georgia vegetarian eatery The Grit combines a soul-food sensibility with its meatless cuisine. That means that the focus is not on what is missing (meat) but on what is present: the bounty of the well-stocked pantry and the seasonal farmer's market. While there is enough well-seasoned Italian, Indian, Mexican, and Middle Eastern favorites for the well-traveled vegetarian, the heart The Grit's cuisine maintains a downhome, soul food sensibility: big portions, simple foods, classic combinations.Greene, Jessica is the author of 'Grit Cookbook World-Wise, Down-Home Recipes', published 2001 under ISBN 9781588180490 and ISBN 1588180492.