{"id":622,"date":"2010-09-02T15:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-09-02T20:54:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:54:22","slug":"cheese-dip-the-national-food-of-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Cheese Dip – The National Food of Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where to start?\u00a0 OK, I have this fantasy of traveling from here to there with the sole purpose of eating and acquiring food.\u00a0 Wher\"\"<\/a>e is \u201cthere\u201d you ask?\u00a0 I haven’t decided yet but I suspect it is northeast of Texas.\u00a0 I will stop at Sonnys, I will buy King Syrup and will eventually acquire several large pieces of Taylor Pork Roll before my return.\u00a0 It is a \u201cFood Road trip\u201d.\u00a0 This takes planning.\u00a0 Well I was getting in a little research and wondered \u201cwhat is the special local food in Arkansas?\u201d\u00a0 Within a few mouse clicks I had my answer and discovered it was Cheese Dip (AKA Queso<\/em> for those of you in the Lone Star State).\u00a0<\/p>\n

On a different but related topic, I watch movies.\u00a0 Some of those movies are off-beat documentaries.\u00a0 I have forced my family to endure many of these films, now they no longer squirm when I suggest we will be previewing a true tale about cooking with tree bark or the history of toilet paper.\u00a0 What does this have to do with cheese dip?\u00a0 Glad you asked, I found a small documentary about cheese dip in Arkansas and it’s online!\u00a0 It is about 20 minutes long and may or may not be worth your time.\u00a0 It\u2019s by Nick Rogers and it\u2019s called In Queso Fever<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In Queso Fever: A Movie About Cheese Dip”<\/a> from Nick Rogers<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will add that I have developed my own 4 Star Cheese Dip and the only living soul to know the secret recipe is my daughter Katie.\u00a0 She uses it to enslave party goers and force them to do her bidding.\u00a0 I on the other hand, only use the power of cheese for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where to start? OK, I have this fantasy of traveling from here to there with the sole purpose of eating and acquiring food. Where is \u201cthere\u201d you ask? I haven’t decided yet but I suspect it is northeast of Texas. I will stop at Sonnys, I will buy King Syrup and will eventually acquire several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}