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    Highlands Bar and Grill

    After three decades, the Birmingham, Alabama, restaurant remains an American icon. In 1982, on a treelined central street in downtown Birmingham, local son Frank Stitt opened Highlands Bar and Grill, a temple of Frenched-up Southern cuisine inspired by the brasseries of Paris. Stitt had cut his teeth in the ’70s at Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse under then-chef Jeremiah Tower, followed by stints in kitchens throughout Provence and Burgundy, before returning home to Alabama, wher
    Highlands Bar and Grill

    Down by The Sea

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    Down by The Sea

    Asparagus Soup with Perfect Sea Scallops

    For a taste of spring, this luscious recipe celebrates the best of the season. I fell in love with flavor at an early agein France, where I traveled often with my parents. In the 1970s, nothing the retasted like it did in America. The tomatoes, the peaches, the asparagus, the eggs—everything was so different, so vivid, somuch itself. This soup is the closest thing I know to the French asparagus soup of my childhood, resplendent in a way that seemed exotic to meat the time: a
    Asparagus Soup with Perfect Sea Scallops
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