April 30, 2006
MarkBernstein.org
 

Davos of Barbecue

Cathy Marshall discusses R. W. Apple, Calvin Trillin, and the boss's lunch en route to discovering the Southern Foodways Symposium. October 19-22, Oxford, Mississippi.

What would they think if an entire delegation of hypertext researchers and bloggers showed up? It sounds great. Papers on "Parsing a Moon Pie" and "We Didn't Know From Fatback: Southern Jewish Perspectives on Barbecue".

From an earlier post:

Nor did I get 500K advances on my physics problem sets, even when I stopped copying Jeff Klein's homework. I did, however, make it all the way up to a "B" third term sophomore year (quantum mechanics).