It’s okay if the whole tomato isn’t covered by the batter. Whisk together everything but the tomatoes to make the batter, then heat the oil on a pan while covering the slices of green tomatoes in the batter. Here is a delicious, simple recipe for fried green tomatoes: And of course, the quests always appreciated that the cafe served the best meals in town.įood is a significant motif in the novel, oftentimes used to parallel tones of nostalgia, so Flagg includes some of the recipes used at the Whistle Stop Cafe in the back of her novel, allowing readers to further step into the story, and reminisce alongside the characters.
In the setting of the cafe, which Idgie owns, she practices her own actions of morality while defying societal gender, economic, romantic, and racial norms of her time, drawing to it people of all walks of life. Idgie is unconventionally outspoken and strong-willed for a woman, and the vicarious memory of her that Ninny has instilled in Evelyn causes Evelyn to make a change in her currently dispirited way of life.
Threadgoode focuses her recounts on one member of the town in particular, her sister-in-law, Idgie Threadgoode. From here, Flagg incorporates the second story line of the early 1900s, that of the late town of Whistle Stop that Evelyn, along with readers, will soon grow to love. Threadgoode is a good-hearted woman who speaks her mind openly, and often reminisces over her home-town, Whistle Stop, Alabama. When she accompanies her husband to the Rose Terrace Nursing Home in which her mother-in-law is residing, she meets another inhabitant of the home, Ninny Threadgoode.
The first, that of one of the novel’s protagonists, Evelyn Couch, a 48-year old woman of the 1980s facing a menopausal era of mid-life crisis. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a historical fiction novel that immerses readers into two plot lines at once.
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