Text messages ping. Tips flood Instagram. As I drive across Mobile Bay in Alabama, friends ask: Are you headed to Bayley’s down in Theodore for fried crab claws? How about a strawberry cupcake at Poll-man’s Bake Shop in Mobile? Have you stopped at K&S convenience store, where they cook turkey necks until they give up a silken brown gravy?
My cell keeps buzzing: How about those smoked pork ribs topped with toasted peanuts at Southern National? Did you eat a flounder-and-grits breakfast at Cozy Brown’s Kitchen up in Whistler? Or the chicken-and-oyster