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CARLY COOPER
offers a three-and-a-half hour Downtown Southern Food Walk that stops at seven restaurants, taking attendees through the history of Southern cuisine.
“We talk about regional varieties and how it’s evolved from slavery and the Civil Rights movement through today,” McConnell says.
She leads the tours with chefs or general managers at each location popping in to speak as well.
“There was nobody anywhere in the South doing a food tour that really looks at Southern food. I wanted it to be more than a neighborhood tour—I wanted people to realize the depth and history,” she says.
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