The Taste Bud: A trip back to youthful innocence (and Po Folks Restaurant)
The Fall 2022 issue of Food & Dining Magazine (#75) is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Go here for a preview of the features, profiles and columns, with links to the new edition at issuu.
Kevin Gibson grew up in Clarksville, Indiana.
During the 1960s, Clarksville’s pancake-flat, easily transformed terrain and proximity to the interstate highway made it ideally suited to become Southern Indiana’s first iteration of what we’d now call “sprawl,” but at the time was celebrated simply as “progress.”
In culinary terms, Clarksville soon became the area epicenter for chain and franchise restaurants. One of them was Po Folks, which Kevin considers in today’s installment of “The Taste Bud.”
The Taste Bud: Revisiting Memories of Po Folks Restaurant
Who remembers Po Folks restaurant? I recently got into a conversation with a friend about the place and later decided to do a little research....Read more