The Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" is one of the best nov-els for ref-er-enc-ing the iconic foods of the South. There were scup-per-nongs and pecans in "To Kill A Mockingbird" and a very mem-o-rable choco-late pie in "The Help", but they were no match for the bis-cuits, bar-be-cue, sausage gravy, coun-try ham and, of course, fried green toma-toes of Flagg's most pop-u-lar work which went on to become an inter-na-tional best-seller, with the even-tual movie ver-sion being nom-i-nated for two Oscars. It is fit-ting then that Flagg also wrote a cook-book. It is called "Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook" and in it she writes about how after the novel and then the film ver-sion of Fried Green Tomatoes came out she was inun-dated with let-ters ask-ing if there really was a Whistle Stop Cafe and if so, could she share some of the recipes? She goes on to explain that the Whistle Stop is based on The Irondale Cafe, started by her Great Aunt Bess in the thir-ties in Irondale, Alabama. Bess ran the place for over fifty years before sell-ing it to the McMichaels fam-ily who stuck to the same clas-sic recipes, fried green toma-toes, Southern bbq and banana split cake, that had kept the restau-rant busy for so long. "There is an early morn-ing chill in the air. But over at the cafe the kitchen is warm, the radio is play-ing, bacon is fry-ing and bis-cuits