Atlanta
Southern cooking, one of America's great international food corridors, and Georgia peaches.
Atlanta’s food has two halves that rarely appear in the same guidebook.
The first is Southern: fried chicken, biscuits, collards, cornbread and the meat-and-three plate lunch, plus a barbecue tradition that leans toward pork with a tomato-and-vinegar sauce.
The second is Buford Highway, a stretch of strip malls northeast of downtown that holds one of the most concentrated international food corridors in the United States — Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mexican, Salvadoran and Ethiopian restaurants running for miles. It is the reason serious eaters come to Atlanta.
Krog Street Market and Ponce City Market are the tidier options downtown. Georgia peaches are worth timing a summer visit around.
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