(Photos Above By: Jan Seale and Bob Brandenburger)
Strawberry pie from shoney’s figured heavily into my earliest culinary traditions in Charlottesville. I came here as a child for cardiology appointments, and after my heart got checked my mother, great aunt and I would have lunch – at Shoney’s, or at Morrison’s Cafeteria or at the Hardware Store – a fascinating place for someone under 10, on the downtown mall, sadly closed in just the last year or so.

Things change in 25 years. I’ve developed new culinary traditions here, and Charlottesville has too.

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