Maybe you're pretty sure you know what it looks like: skyscrapers, grit, hot-dog carts, lots of sophisticates rushing to lots of important things.
On your way to Jamestown stop at the Old Chickahominy House (1211 Jamestown Road, 757-229-4689) and have the house special -- the plantation breakfast, with Virginia ham, eggs, country bacon, grits, hot biscuits and more ($7.95).
Popular techniques such as feeding them grits, the hot breakfast cereal popular in the South, have now been proved ineffective; fire ants don't eat solid food.
It's good to see fried chicken on a menu, especially with a tangy batter; if only the accompanying kale and mashed potatoes (which had the consistency of grits) came hot, or at least warm.
You can bank on the mahi being unstintingly fresh, the potatoes buttery, and the grits glistening hot from the pot on toast made from good bread.
Shrimp and grits was the hot restaurant darling encountered on recent trips to Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., but none was as satisfying as Fiddleheads'.
There is a jotting in Japanese and the words "I love Hot Grits," a reference to Ms. Faires's band, whose name is an acronym for "girls raised in the South".
What he glossed over in evocation and mystery (the Scherzo's water nymphs were terrifyingly iron-fisted; the finale was a matter-of-fact orgy), he made up for in grit and white-hot vigour: who needs scene-setting when the first movement's coda is such a sonic thrill?
Maybe your mom should throw some hot grits on him.
Plate the shrimp over a large spoonful of rich, creamy grits and serve hot.
If your mother was black she would throw some hot grits on them and say "Dude, you better get out of my house".
