FAMILY STYLE FRIED CHICKEN

A bit of Americana, like Mom, apple pie and hot dogs, family style fried chicken restaurants are still around, where the pan fried chicken is bought out heaped on a platter, served with a mountain of mashed potatoes and a bowl of country gravy plus green beans and biscuits if you like.

A step back from the cookie- cut chain restaurants with their snazzy motifs and loud music,and cardboard food. No one at one of these family style culinary delights will come up to your table and say:"Hello, my name is Cynthia and I will be your server tonight" or other memorized faux friendliness. No, this is real food served by real people.

Last night we were pleasured by the Stroud's Restaurant and Bar in Wichita, Kansas:
"In 1933 Helen Stroud began inviting the public to her Kansas City home to enjoy her
traditional Southern-fried chicken dinner. . . the homestyle tradition she started has grown
to five locations, but keeps the rustic charm and family atmosphere of the original"

Restaurants like these are not ubiquitous.., but are still around if you hunt them up.
For a a trip to yesterday, and a delcious meal, served family style, look up one in your neighborhood.

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN