Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe — Fannie Flagg

Owned and operated by Ruth and Idgie, the Whistelstop cafe is a small-town Alabama eatery alive with the hungry, the heartbroken, the righteous and the garrulous. Years later the tale of Ruth and Idgie is recalled in the Rose Terrace Nursing Home where the elderly Cleo Threadgoode chats with her visitor, casting a hypnotic narrative spell as she tells of honeysuckle vines, custard pies, births, deaths, marriages, an occasional murder and even the recipe for Fried Green Tomatoes. Brilliantly written by Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistelstop Cafe is not only a best-selling novel, but also a much-loved film.