"Irondale, Alabama Irondale is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, northeast of Homewood and Mountain Brook. At the 2010 census the population was 12,349. The setting of the book (later a film) ""Fried Green Tomatoes"", by Irondale native Fannie Flagg, is loosely based on the town and the landmark Irondale Cafe, known as The Whistle-Stop Cafe in the book & film. Irondale is also the location of Catholic radio/television broadcaster EWTN. The city's annual Whistle-Stop Festival attracts thousands to its eclectic mix of art, food and music. On October 5, 1887, the"
"Jamison comes to live with the family while teaching at the Vacation Bible School. Idgie gradually becomes enamored of her and is saddened when Ruth leaves Whistle Stop to marry Frank Bennett. Frank turns out to be a violent, abusive man who often beats Ruth. She remains faithful to Frank until her mother's death. Subsequently, Ruth sends Idgie a message, and Idgie, along with several others, rescue her. Intimidated by Big George, the family's handyman and café cook, Frank does not resist. With money from her father, Idgie establishes the Whistle Stop Cafe, with Sipsey (George's adoptive mother) and her"
"for a location, she found Juliette, Georgia, a town that was, according to Avnet, nearly deserted. The building chosen to be the Whistle Stop Café was formerly an antique and hardware store. It was redesigned as a cafe, with a horseshoe shaped counter to allow for optimal camera angles. After the release of the film, Juliette saw an influx of tourists and, with Jon Avnet's encouragement, locals opened the Whistle Stop Café, recreated to mirror the film set. Although ""Whistle Stop Café"" is now a registered trademark, other establishments have appeared using that name. While writing the novel, Flagg based"
"Whistle Stop on Irondale, Alabama, and the café on a real-life restaurant, the Irondale Café. She was a frequent visitor there which was formerly owned by her great-aunt. The scene where Idgie goes to collect honey from a tree stump for Ruth was originally intended to be performed by a stunt double. However, after the latter backed out at the last minute, Masterson volunteered to do it herself. The footage of her covered in a swarm of live bees is seen in the final version of the film. Unlike the novel, the film does not make the lesbian romance between"
"a deep attachment develops between them. Ruth leaves Whistle Stop to marry Frank Bennett and moves to Valdosta, Georgia. Idgie tries to forget her but later visits her house to find her pregnant and subject to physical abuse from Frank. Against his wishes and violent attempts to stop her, she returns to Whistle Stop with Idgie, where her baby, a boy whom she names Buddy, Jr., is born. Papa Threadgoode gives Idgie money to start a business so she can care for Ruth and Buddy, Jr. She and Ruth open the Whistle Stop Cafe, employing the family cook, Sipsey, and"
"she refuses to sacrifice him. During the subsequent trial, the local minister, Reverend Scroggins, has no problem lying, providing Idgie and Big George with sound alibis for the time of Frank's disappearance. Taking into account Frank's reputation for getting drunk, the judge rules his death an accident and dismisses the case. Idgie and Big George are cleared of all charges. After the trial, Ruth is diagnosed with cancer, becomes very ill, and eventually dies. Following her death, the café closes. Over time, many Whistle Stop residents eventually move away, bringing Ninny to the end of her story, but not before"
"at the Whistlestop Cafe"", Jamie Ford, who penned ""Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet"", and Jeannette Walls, whose first book, ""The Glass Castle"", stayed on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list for 100 weeks. As a result, the 2011 event sold out. The final night of Girlfriend Weekend is The Great Big Ball of Hair Ball, where club members and authors wear costumes based on a theme. In 2010, the party celebrated The Wizard of Oz. In 2011, the costumes were based on the event's theme: ""It's all about the story."" Attendees dressed as characters out of their"
"climbing the right one). Binder, the narrator, returns in a 1957 sequel, ""The Cruise of the Talking Fish"", a satire of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. A bar and restaurant in Kathmandu, called Rum Doodle and decorated with pictures from the book, has become a popular staging point for expeditions to Mt. Everest. There is a popular B&B in Windermere, Cumbria, named after the book, with each room named after one of the characters. A small mountain in the Masson Range in Antarctica, near Mawson Station, bears the official name Rumdoodle Peak inspired by this book. A mountainous point in Aoraki/Mount"
"selling Mary Kay Cosmetics and, at Mrs. Threadgoode's urging, is treated for menopause and confronts various long-held fears. Evelyn becomes happier. While on vacation, she receives a letter from Mrs. Hartman, Mrs. Threadgoode's neighbor, that Mrs. Threadgoode has died and left various trinkets for Evelyn. The novel's conclusion reveals that Idgie and her brother Julian, after Whistle Stop became depopulated, operated a roadside food-stand. Although it is not explicitly labeled as a lesbian relationship, every resident both knows about and accepts Idgie and Ruth's relationship, making lesbianism a theme in the novel. In the film adaptation Ruth had been in"
"and the Miracle Man"". The autobiographical coming-of-age novel is written as a diary that starts in 1952 with an 11-year-old protagonist, Daisy Fay Harper. Daisy uses diary entries to tell the story of her alcoholic father's get-rich-quick schemes and her well-mannered mother. The book stayed on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list for 10 weeks. Perhaps her best-known novel, ""Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"" was published in 1987 and remained on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list for 36 weeks. It was praised by both Harper Lee and Eudora Welty. The novel is told in both past"
"Bailey's Cafe Bailey's Café is a 1992 novel by award-winning American author Gloria Naylor. The novel consists of a loosely intertwined group of stories, all told in first person, about the owners and patrons of ""Bailey's Cafe"", an apparently supernatural establishment, set nominally in New York City, whose entrance can be found from different places and times. The unnamed owner of Bailey's Cafe (he is called ""Bailey"" as a nickname) acquires the cafe after his return from World War II and claims that it is magical and it saved him. Though the cafe is nominally set in New York City"
"The Lunatic Cafe The Lunatic Cafe is the fourth in the series of horror/mystery novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. ""The Lunatic Cafe"" continues the adventures of Anita Blake. Anita attempts to solve a series of shapeshifters disappearances while exploring her relationship with Richard Zeeman, her werewolf boyfriend, and avoiding the advances of Jean-Claude, a vampire would-be paramour. As with its predecessors, ""The Lunatic Cafe"" blends elements of supernatural, hardboiled and police procedural fiction. Within the novel, the ""Lunatic Cafe"" is the name of a restaurant that is operated by and serves as a base for St. Louis area shapeshifters. Hamilton"
"The Glass Cafe The Glass Cafe (The full title ""The Glass Cafe Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous""), is a young adult fiction novella by Gary Paulsen. It is about a twelve-year-old boy whose mother is a stripper. Tony is fascinated with art, and goes to the club that his mom works at to draw pictures of some of the ladies. When his art teacher looks at the drawings, she wants to put them up in a museum for a"
"the third Saturday of October. The festival is well known for the wide variety of antiques and crafts for sale. The Whistle Stop is the most famous restaurant in Glendale and is situated along the rail road. The Whistle Stop was created from expanding a lunch business within the existing hardware store in Glendale. The owners, James and Idell Sego, opened the restaurant in 1975. In 2005, this restaurant obtained new owners, Mike and Lynn Cummins. They continue to operate it to this day. Glendale has a special zoning regulation that keeps out businesses such as fast food restaurant chains"
"and a visit to Foppa's restaurant, where Nick and Jean unexpectedly meet Barnby and Anne Stepney. Dicky Umfraville is also there. The group goes to Mrs. Andriadis' home and there meet Werner Guggenbuhl. Summer 1933 sees Jenkins, Templer, Stringham and Widmerpool at the Le Bas dinner for Old Boys, at the Ritz. Stringham arrives the worse for drink and Widmerpool makes an uninvited, boring and pompous speech, silenced only by Le Bas collapsing with a stroke. Widmerpool and Jenkins take the drunken Stringham home to bed. The book ends with intimations of an end to Nick's affair with Jean. The"
"as per Naylor's earlier novel ""Mama Day"", patrons wander into it from different times and places. The cafe also has a back door that apparently opens onto infinity (or death). The stories he tells include his own and his wife, Nadine's, as well as those of several of the patrons of the cafe who live in a nearby brownstone including Eve (who owns the brownstone down the street that harbors mostly fugitive women and serves as a bordello), Ester (the victim of sexual and emotional abuse), ""Miss Maple"" (a male cross-dresser), Jessie Bell (a bisexual drug-addict), Mary (a self-mutilated beauty),"
"and present tense by the characters Ninnie Threadgoode (past) and Evelyn Couch (present) and focuses on the town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, circa the 1920s and 1930s. It is about the unlikely bonds forged between women who seemingly have nothing in common except restlessness. Flagg subsequently wrote the screenplay based on that book, which became the 1991 film ""Fried Green Tomatoes"". The movie garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. ""Fried Green Tomatoes"" starred Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson. She has also written ""Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle-Stop Café Cookbook"" (1993), ""Welcome to"
"her son, Big George, who excels with a barbecue that becomes popular with their patrons. Frank eventually returns to Whistle Stop to kidnap Buddy, Jr., but his attempt is thwarted by an unseen assailant, and he is later reported missing. Once his truck appears at the bottom of a nearby drying lake without its owner, Idgie is immediately a suspect, as she had publicly threatened violence against him for beating Ruth. She is detained along with Big George for his murder by Grady Kilgore, the local sheriff, who offers to release her and pin the crime solely on Big George;"
"to send her twin sons to college. One day, she discovers a discarded ring and pawns it. However, Yule May is brutally arrested after Hilly reports the theft. Following this and the assassination of Medgar Evers, more maids come forward with their stories, believing the book would help put an end to the brutality against African-Americans. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny fear that the maids' stories will be recognized. Minny then reveals the ""terrible awful"" that she did to Hilly: following her termination, Minny baked her renowned chocolate pie and gave it to Hilly."
"in Downingham. She is nicknamed 'Poppy' by her co-workers “for no better reason than that a Sunday paper was running a crude cartoon about a blonde called Poppy Pink”. The book takes its title from the fact that, as the only female member of staff, it is always Poppy's turn to make the tea. The book starts with Poppy finding a room in a boarding house with her irascible chain-smoking landlady Mrs Goff who seldom has a good word to say about anyone except Mr Goff and who tyrannically presides over her lodgers. Other boarders at No 5 Bury Road"
"library. He removes the books before Hangfire can burn it down, although the building ends up being saved by the recently installed sprinkler system. Stew confronts Lemony and Ellington at the library, leading to Ellington being arrested for the destruction of the books. Lemony replaced the full books with the empty ones found at the school library. He then hides the full books at Black Cat Coffee. A younger Josephine then talks to Lemony about how his sister, Kit, was arrested. Ryan Britt gave the book a positive review, claiming that Snicket was ""a little more dangerous and a little"
"further. The book names the establishment as ""Chalmun's Cantina"", introducing its proprietor as a Wookiee named Chalmun; it also reveals that the bartender is named Wuher. The book also explores the reasons for the cantina's ban on droids: the bartender claims to dislike everyone, but lashes out at droids because they are the only thing that will not try to fight back; the proprietor Chalmun does not tolerate droids because they do not drink, and therefore occupy valuable space. The backstory of the cantina's resident swing band is also expanded in the short stories ""We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's"
"meeting at the Louvre, during the time of the Peace Conferences (Paris Peace Conference, 1919). The next part of the book is taken up with various debutante balls in the early summer of 1928/9, notably at the Huntercombes', where Barbara Goring (a flame of Nick's) pours sugar over Widmerpool. Leaving the ball, Widmerpool and Jenkins bump into Mr Deacon and Gypsy Jones. Stopping together at a tea stall they encounter Stringham, who takes Nick, Widmerpool, Deacon and Gypsy to a party at Mrs Andriadis's. During that summer Jenkins spends weekends in the country and lunches at Stourwater, home of magnate"
"opening of Eatonville, his Zora Neale Hurston-themed restaurant, Andy Shallal is trying to mend a decades-old literary rift between the author and her contemporary, Langston Hughes, whom Shallal's Busboys And Poets chain is named in honor of. The two writers tried to collaborate on a play, Mule Bone, but things went sour: “They fought over copyright issues, but I think they wanted to be friends,” says Shallal. Since the restaurants are across the street from each other, Shallal sees it as a chance to reunite the two writers."" ""Busboys and Poets is a popular green restaurant: it has plenty of"
"over this 'extravagance'. After this though, he made frequent polite enquiries over the progress of the book, ""Lord Edgware Dies"", which was dedicated to him and his wife. A skeleton found on the dig was named 'Lord Edgware'. A singular honour that Christie bestowed on the Thompsons was to read aloud the manuscript of the book to them, something that she normally only ever did to her family (See External Links below). The blurb on the inside flap of the dustjacket of the first edition (which is also repeated opposite the title page) reads: ""Supper at the Savoy! Hercule Poirot,"
"daughter-in-law Onzell as cooks, and becomes secondary guardian to Ruth's son, Buddy Jr. (known as 'Stump' after losing an arm in an accident). The café quickly became known to hobos all over the U.S. during The Great Depression as a welcome place to find a meal. The most recurrent is 'Smokey Lonesome' Phillips, who secretly loves Ruth. When Ruth dies of cancer, Idgie is heartbroken. After the railroad yard closes, the cafe (and ultimately the town) ceases operation. Several years later, Idgie and Big George are arrested for Frank Bennett's murder; but the case is dismissed when the local minister,"
"Pie Society"", to avoid arrest. Five years later, in January 1946, author Juliet Ashton is promoting her latest book, written under her pen name Izzy Bickerstaff. She has just been contracted, through her publisher, Sidney Stark, to write stories for ""The Times Literary Supplement"" about the benefits of literature. Juliet receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a man from Guernsey who has come into possession of her copy of ""Essays of Elia"" and who wants to know about where to find a bookshop in England to buy another book by the same author, Charles Lamb. He tells her that he"
"Stanley Park (novel) Stanley Park is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Taylor, published in 2001. Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw. The novel uses a ""Bloods vs. Crips"" metaphor for the philosophical conflict between chefs such as Papier, who favour local ingredients and menus, and those such as his nemesis Dante Beale, who favour a hip, globalized, ""post-national"" fusion cuisine. Papier also endures conflict with his father, an anthropologist studying homelessness in Vancouver's Stanley Park, who draws him into investigating the death of two children in the park. Taylor's"
"a bookcase with an encyclopaedia that is often consulted. After the main course, the brandy is served and the host rattles his spoon on his water glass for silence. One of the other Widowers is appointed as ""griller"" and begins the questioning, most often by asking the guest to ""justify his existence"". In the course of the subsequent conversation, it always comes out that the guest has a problem, varying from personal issues to problems at work to actual crimes. The club members try to solve the problem, raising various related aspects in the course of the conversation, but are"
"The book is better known for its frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley, which does not depict any described scene in the book, than it is for its actual text. The story begins with two gentlemen dining in a restaurant in the Strand, carefully keeping track of their finances as they order each item. It's revealed that the two men met recently, as they were staying in the same hotel; they both have been fleeing from something (later revealed to be their respective brides) and using aliases in London—in fact they chose the identical alias of J. Smith at the hotel, which"
"Eagle Cafe, alongside Annabelle Troy, a middle-class young woman who is dating Constance's brother Skipper. Constance starts planning her wedding, and begins to worry about Field's whereabouts when he would be with Lane. Lute-Mae Sanders, a local bordello owner, starts worrying about Constance, who does not know that Lute-Mae is her biological mother. At the end of the hour, Lane is falsely picked up for solicitation. In the second hour, Lane comes back to town and gets a job at Lute-Mae's, angering Titus, who thought he had finally gotten rid of her. Lute-Mae is confronted by the sheriff, but has"
"though most ingenious, is next door to impossible. The point at issue, which it would be grossly unfair to specify, between Mrs Christie and the reader is one which would provide a really interesting silly season correspondence."" He concluded that ""usually Poirot is to be toasted in anything handy, and no heel-taps; this time I drink to him a rather sorrowful glass of Lachryma Christie."" The ""Daily Mirror"" (9 July 1936) wrote: ""Don't start reading this if you've got something to do or want a book just for a quarter of an hour or so. Because you simply won't put"
"and 9 years, who are in the restaurant with their dad Carthew Yorsten. The novel starts at 8:29 AM (just before the plane hits the tower) and tells about every event on every following minute, ending at 10:30 AM, just after the collapse. Published in 2012, Kenneth Womack's novel ""The Restaurant at the End of the World"" offers a fictive recreation of the lives of the staff and visitors at the Windows on the World complex on the morning of September 11. On January 4, 2006, a number of former Windows on the World staff opened Colors, a co-operative restaurant"