Mar 30, 2011 00:21
Blue highway: On the old maps of america the main highways were red and the secondary out-in-the-sticks highways blue.
William Least Heat-Moon offers this criteria for rating resturants on the back roads of america in "Blue Highways":
"There is one almost infallible way to find honest food at just prices in blue-highway America: Count the wall calendars in a cafe.
No Calendar: Same as an interstate pit stop
One Calendar: Preprocessed food assembled in New Jersey
Two Calendars: Only if fish trophies present
Three Calendars: Can't miss on the farm-boy breakfasts
Four Calendars: Try the Ho' Made pie too.
Five Calendars: Keep it under your hat, or they'll franchise."
Happy eating world,
~Charlie