Sweet Auburn Curb Market invigorates with global goodies

Sweet Auburn Curb Market turns ninety this year. Originally known as the Municipal Market of Atlanta, it began as an assembly of open-air vendors on land laid waste by the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917, which started near a Decatur Street warehouse and consumed almost 2,000 buildings.

The State of Biscuits in Atlanta

Biscuits have been keystones of the Southern table for more than a century. Before air-conditioning, they were beloved for their short baking time, which didn’t overheat the kitchen. In Culinary Ephemera, William Woys Weaver notes that biscuits became a calling card of the Bible Belt in part because they were leavened using baking powder rather than yeast, which is associated with alcohol. Still one of the emblems of the South, they’re now fashionable in hipster cities like Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
Margaret Mitchell House

Learn the backstory of Atlanta’s most famous novel

Shortly after Margaret Mitchell left her job as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal in the mid-1920s, she sat down at a desk at her ground-floor apartment on Peachtree Street—she and her husband, John Marsh, affectionately referred to the unit as “the dump”—and began writing the bulk of a Southern soap opera that became just as much a part of Atlanta’s DNA as Coca-Cola.
Vixen Workout Atlanta

Test Drive: Killing it on the dance floor with Atlanta’s Vixen Workout

Carefree, crop-topped, posing with her squad like she was ready to slay all day—every time Atlanta dance instructor Mikayla McGee popped up on my feed, I was struck with a serious case of Instagram Envy. Or FOMO. Surely her dance fitness class couldn’t be as cool and fun as it looked in the pictures, right?
New Antico Pizza Sandy Springs

Giovanni di Palma hopes to open Antico Pizza in Sandy Springs and debut Vespa-style food carts

The Antico Pizza founder is planning a Sandy Springs outpost and working on adding Vespa-inspired food carts to his Little Italia development on the Westside.
Cooks and Soldiers

Cooks & Soldiers

Where Iberian Pig takes its inspiration from all of Spain, Cooks & Soldiers focuses on the Basque region, which gained an international profile during the craze over molecular gastronomy and its first exponent, Ferran Adrià of elBulli.

Ford Fry will soon have a food truck at the Battery at SunTrust Park

When the second location of the El Felix opens this October at the Battery at SunTrust Park (the first opened at Avalon in 2015), it will have something Ford Fry has never done before—a built-in, stationary taco truck.
Greyfield Inn

Live like a Carnegie at Greyfield Inn

Originally part of a sprawling estate built by the Carnegie family at the turn of the 20th century, the colonial-style Greyfield mansion is the only hotel on Cumberland Island.

The Flying Biscuit

From "Southern Biscuits" by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart. The Flying Biscuit Cafe is reputed to have the best biscuit in Atlanta. They churn them out day after day, and moans of pleasure can be heard out on the street by the lines of young and old waiting for a seat.
Scenic drives in North Georgia Mountains

3 scenic drives to take this fall in the North Georgia mountains

Especially spectacular when the leaves are turning next month.

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