I think ‘Gourmet’ was the magazine that used to have a feature where people would write in and ask the editors to ferret-out the recipe for something wonderful they’d had in a restaurant. I found the recipe for one of my favorite ‘mall eatery’ dishes that way, and saved a lot of others from that feature as well.
-JT
Yes, that was the one feature that remained with the magazine until the day it folded. I once requested sweet potato poopies from a diner in Montgomery, Alabama but they never answered me. Too bad, they were delicious, lol!