Truckstop gourmet: take two

Oct 31, 2008

Updated Dec 14, 2009

After blogging about the public radio program The Splendid Table’s laudatory remarks on the cinnamon rolls at Johnson’s Corner in Loveland, Colo., this latest bit of news feels perhaps more down to earth. At an Iron Skillet restaurant on the other side of the country — in the Petro at I-285 and Bankhead Hwy. in northwest Atlanta — the blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of the same name featured in Overdrive: The Voice of the American Trucker. Todd Dills ([email protected]) is its author.

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