Happy Cow’s Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants & Health Food Stores (www.happycow.net) has a restaurant guide with more than 6,000 restaurants in 100 countries. VegDining.com also lists vegetarian restaurants (with profiles) around the world. Vegetarian Vacations (www.vegetarian-vacations.com) offers vegetarian tours and itineraries. While many ethnic and vegetarian restaurants are available in both Memphis and Nashville, both cities stake their culinary identities to home cooking. That means you should always ask if the veggie dishes have been slow-simmered with meat (like turnip greens or green beans swimming in ham broth or bacon grease). And if you have a strong aversion to the ever-present aroma of barbecued pork meat, you may do best to avoid Memphis altogether.
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Excerpted from Frommer's Nashville & Memphis, 8th Edition, © 2009, Wiley Publishing, Inc.