For an authentic taste of true Nashville, my out-of-town company always get a convertible top-down ride down Highway 100, a cruise down the Natchez Trace and a tummy-stuffing stop at The Loveless Cafe. It's there that national Southern culinary biscuit-makin' legend Carol Fay Ellison, has been mixin', rollin' & pattin' them fluffy white biscuits–complete with melt-in-your mouth preserves to be wedged between them with a slather of heart-stopping butter–or more than two decades. It tickled me pink that the day we left NYC in bitter-cold, late January 2007, after our appearance on "The View," that I turned on our hotel television and saw Carol Fay mixing dough somewhere down the street from us alongside Martha Stewart.

Biscuits and Bellevue will just never be the same without Carol Fay. Vince Gill and Amy Grant sang their goodbyes alongside her casket at her packed house funeral. According to today's Tennessean story, on her passing, Paula Deen issued a press release stating Carol Fay's "whippin' up those biscuits in heaven." I say those biscuits WERE heaven here on earth. Rest in Peace, Carol Fay.