Omnivore - Food links 7-15: Free ice cream, pies rule, and Shaq takes it to the kitchen

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The Cooking Channel ice cream truck will give out free (!) ice cream from Jake's Ice Cream at East Lake Farmers Market on Saturday from 9am-1pm, featuring Roger Mooking of the new network's Everyday Exotic.

Pies are the new cupcakes: with the opening of the new Old 4th Ward Pie Company and Atlanta Food & Beer's review of Roswell's Pie Hole, we enter a crustier era.

If you have yet to check out the Southern Foodways Alliance's oral history project about Buford Highway, which Cliff Bostock mentioned in Grazing, watch and listen here.