J-Studies head Dale Rice part of Southern Food Poll

He can't live without barbecue: Texas A&M's director of Journalism Studies (and the Austin American-Statesman's former dining critic) Dale Rice is part of the Southern Food Poll in Oxford American magazine. Click here to read Rice's contribution. Here's a taste:

From which Southern restaurant would you order your last meal and why?
Royers Round Top Cafe in Round Top, Texas. My last meal would have to be on a Sunday, when Royer's serves a limited amount of the best buttermilk-and-garlic coated fried chicken to be found anywhere, accompanied by home-style bowls of mashed potato casserole and creamed corn, and topped off with a piece of Bud Royer's pie.