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Country Corner Restaurant, Garlin, KY: No delivery to Spain, yet

Richard Hovious, the Knifley, Kentuckian now living in Spain, is hungry for some good bulldog gravy like Luke Knifley used to make, or anything tasting of Adair County. He just wrote, on reading the breakfast menu, "If Country Corner Restaurant delivers, please have them send me 'one of each.' Thanks.' s/Richard"


We checked, and Bobby and Sharon Burton, who own the largest fleet of taxis and vans in the area as well as Country Corner Restaurant, don't deliver to Spain - yet. In fact, they haven't yet figured how deliveries in Columbia will be made. But they are innovative people, and it may happen.

In the meantime, CM recommends the whole vast Adair County diaspora get back here and just feast. The year 2008 is promising some of the greatest advances in bringing back (Columbia's motto: Looking back to forge ahead) real Adair County home cooking. It wouldn't be surprising at all to see Food Network camera crews camping out here next year, in addition to all those Canadian tour busses Sue Stivers is bring here.

You'll need to take your time

Just don't all y'all come at once. We want you to have time to sit down and talk about back home. Tell stories. Remember the old days. Handle it the way the Amtrak worker advised my nephew, Phillip Glenn Cravens, to do when he did so working too fast in the Amtrak Beech Grove round table. "Slow down, Cravens," he said. "You're making the rest of us look bad. Walk slower. Go to water fountain more. Talk about back home. It will make your day go better."

That's what you need to be able to do here. Slow down. Talk about home here. Eat. Drink coffee and Ski. It will make your day go better.

We're thinking that if a person paced themselves right, in less time than it takes to negotiate all of Michigan Avenue in Chicago, they could have the culinary experience of their lives, right here in Adair County, the Food Capitol of the World.

Where else can you get entertainment for free - absolutely no cover - charge, like you can at any eatery in Adair County?

So that's our advice. Even if the stay-away hasn't expired at the courthouse, we recommend you come to Adair County and feast. Prices are a whole lot better here.

s/Ed Waggener

Richard Hovious wants to enlist in Columbia VFW Post 6097, and has enlisted CM to pull all the strings it can to get him in. The first time he joined up in the Navy, he just inadvertently misspoke his age. "That was in 1948, 57 years ago. Very shortly after the recruiting office (in Campbellsville, KY) visit, I was on my way to San Diego," he said, "I was 13-years-old at the time."
Related:

COUNTRY CORNER MENU 2007-01-04

Click Here for "Richard Arlan Hovious:The Knifley boy who helped Luke Knifley build the Art Theatreand whose ambition was to become Knifley's first Rocket Scientist."

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