Here we go, then.
We left Cinci for Buffalo Trace (in the depths of Kentucky) at 11. Arrived at 12.35, after our wonderful Google Maps Guide had taken us through some incredible rural routes.
Buffalo Trace make 18 different products - mostly Bourbon, but other stuff , too. (Vodka? Root Beer?
). Great tasting,great tour of the oldest and longest lasting Bourbon distillery in the country.
Then we were all hungry, so we went off looking for a "decent" restaurant to have lunch - in the sticks.
We came across this place in Millville, a tiny community near Lexington - but it could have been in the middle of the New Forest.
We ate all sorts of stuff I´d never eaten before - and my family even less: grits, hoe biscuits, pulled pork with green tomato chutney, cornbread, burgog...
The attention was unbelievably friendly, attentive. I´ll let the pictures do the talkin´.
Incidentally, the NAME of the restaurant comes from bourbon making. A stave is a piece of wood which is cut to make a bourbon barrel. The pieces of wood are soaked, then bent into a barrel shape and then clamped together by the coopers ( barrel makers) with metal bands. Brilliant day!