It also spent 36 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was praised by Southern literary giants Harper Lee and Eudora Welty.įlagg based the Whistle Stop Cafe on the long-popular Irondale Cafe, bringing the eatery worldwide renown. The best-selling book was “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café,” and its pawned a cookbook and a hit movie starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Mary Stuart Masterson. In 1987, actor, entertainer and writer Fannie Flagg first introduced us to Idgie, Evelyn, Ninny and the other inhabitants of the fictional and oh-so-Southern Whistle Stop, Alabama.
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