Tennessee Shrimp and Grits

It’s nothing less than heresy even to suggest that the folks in Tennessee might know as much about shrimp and grits as those in the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, where the specialty originated, but when my obsessed Mississippi cohort Julia Reed put me on to the cheesy, tomatoey creation served at Pearl’s Foggy Mountain Café in the unlikely small town of Sewanee, Tennessee, I knew I’d encountered something altogether different, but special. Of course, this glorious dish is now becoming as