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. Idgie says that for people who know her not to worry about getting poisoned, she is not cooking. All the cooking is being done by two colored women, Sipsey and Onzell, and the barbecue is being cooked by Big George, who is Onzell's husband. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was previously familiar to me from the movie adaptation of the book - a feel-good movie if there ever was one. The book was similar, focusing on the small, seemingly insignificant daily events in the town of Whistle Stop, Alabama. The intricacies of the town with its all-American housewives and small-town mentality are lovingly and nostalgically described. Food and cooking is one of the main themes of the novel (complete with a list of recipies at the end of the book). Yet the town has its own problems with the poverty and soci...