Jennifer Fitzgerald, Black Mountain News

Jennifer Fitzgerald, Black Mountain News
Looking for a good place to eat?
Have you ever been driving down the interstates of North Carolina and wondered where the locals eat? Perhaps you are craving more that the average fast food chain - you wanted somewhere to sit down and enjoy some good hometown cooking.
D.G. Martin, who currently writes a column that appears in many newspapers, including the Black Mountain News, has recently written the second edition of “Interstate Eateries - A Guide to Down-Home Cooking Along North Carolina’s Interstates.”
“To me,” Martin writes, “home cooking means more than just good food. It also means eating in a place that makes you feel comfortable - like home. Those eateries are even better when you find a family-owned restaurant that’s been around a long time with sons and daughters helping their parents run things.
“I like it best when waitresses who’ve been working there forever call me ‘hon’ and keep my glass full of sweet tea without me having to ask.”
Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a North Carolina Interstate. In fact, chapter two, which focuses on Interstate 40, recommends that you stop in Black Mountain and eat at Coach House Seafood and Steak and Perry’s BBQ. Directions and a description of each of the mentioned restaurants is included in the book.
“Interstate Eateries - A Guide to Down-Home Cooking Along North Carolina’s Interstates” is available at bookstores or through Our State magazine at www.ourstate.com.