Remembering Virginia's Cafe got me to wondering about where her customers must be eating these days. Lots of them are probably at Threadgill's, which is certainly understandable. I mean no disrespect to Eddie Wilson's eateries -- they're still the only places in town that make cornbread just the way I like it -- but I was thinking more of the smaller neighborhood joints where iced tea might be served in Mason jars and signs advertising the blue plate special would be handwritten. I looked all over the greater Austin metropolitan area, from Hwy 71W and 620 to Orchard Lane near Pflugerville to E. 11th Street and all the way to Manor. What I found out is there's still plenty of good home cooking around Austin, and the new reigning queen of the homestyle kitchen is a second generation cook named Dot Hewitt.