5/11/2023 0 Comments Whistle stop fried green tomatoes![]() ![]() "It's very good, in fact, just wonderful. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!" Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. "Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. And as the past unfolds, the present-for Evelyn and for us-will never be quite the same again. Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. Irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Place 2 large green tomatoes, sliced inch thick on a large paper-towel-lined baking sheet and season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Both major storylines in Fried Green Tomatoes center on relationships between women: the developing friendship between Evelyn Couch and Ninny Threadgoode in a 1980s nursing home, and the Depression-era partnership between the co-owners of the Whistle Stop Cafe, Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison. ![]() The tale she tells is also of two women-of the Threadgoode telling her life story toĮvelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. Now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s of gray-headed Mrs. Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the ![]()
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