Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Dave Hoekstra, author, WGN weekend radio host, and former Reader contributor.
“My favorite recipe in the book is the lima beans from Charleston. So many of these places are mom-and-pops, so it was hard to fact-check. This place in Charleston, they weren’t going to e-mail me a recipe. I made a separate trip and drove back to Charleston just to sit in the kitchen and get this recipe dictated. And everybody talks about the pig-ear sandwich at the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi. That was memorable. Chewy and spicy, the size of a slider.
