Healthy and Hungry in Birmingham
For our 25th anniversary issue, we give you a quick, tasty tour of our favorite things to eat and enjoy in Cooking Light’s Alabama hometown.
Healthy Birmingham Dining
Like any Southern city worth its salt pork, our hometown serves up good food of both the high and low variety: fancy or casual,
but always friendly. And we know how to make a cold drink for a hot day, too.
About 15 years ago, Birmingham became an early signifier of a new style of Southern cooking: local ingredients, regional approaches,
a lighter and brighter sensibility. In the last five years alone, the James Beard Foundation has recognized six Birmingham
chefs and restaurants, an impressive accomplishment for a city with a metro population of about 1 million. One chef—the still-on-his-game
Frank Stitt— started a chain reaction that’s making this a truly magical city in which to eat and explore.
