(AP Photo/The Oakland Tribune, Sean Connelley)

As I'm making up my Top Ten All-American dishes in local restaurants, which will appear next Tuesday, I'm not including much in the way of southern food, because for the next few days I'll be blogging from Sewanee, Tenn., home of the Smokehouse (and a motley assortment of other restaurants).

Your restaurant critic, always at work for you, is going to try to get to the Southwest terminal early enough to check out the new Obrycki's inside security there. I had talked to my editor earlier about having The Sun buy me a cheap one-way ticket so I could get through to review it without revealing my identity, but I was afraid if I didn't then use the ticket I would be on the TSA's terrorist watch list for the rest of my life.