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Top Chef fans, here's your chance to win a DVD of season 5 "Top Chef New York." Adrienne Johnson Martin is sponsoring a contest on her Happiness is a Warm TV blog, with a free copy of the DVD as the prize. You can find the details here.
Greg Cox is the restaurant critic for The News & Observer. He was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up in North Carolina on a diet of Southern fried chicken (the real thing, cooked up in a big, black cast iron skillet), fried okra, sweet sliced summer tomatoes and the best biscuits on the planet. He has cooked, catered, waited tables and dined in Europe, Canada, Mexico and much of the U.S. (especially the South, Southwest and Midwest).