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September
The Waffle House Index
As Hurricane Florence slams into the North and South Carolina costs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring a vital disaster tracking service: The Waffle…
Roasted tomatoes
Somewhere around the beginning of September, I commit heresy. I admit, barely above a whisper, that I’m sick of tomatoes. I remember wistfully those first…
Olive oil cake
The top search for a dessert on Food52 is not a chocolate torte or peanut butter cookie or apple pie. It’s an olive oil cake….
We might starve (again)
“I wish I could go in a grocery store,” the Princess said plaintively. Her mother, my beloved daughter-in-law Tammy, does drive by grocery shopping from…
The best crab cakes
The most perfect crab cake I ever had was served with a side of misery. I was in Wilmington, Delaware, interviewing for an upper management…
Buttermilk biscuits with honey butter
Buttermilk biscuits are hard. Or they can be. Literally. King Daddy’s Granny Belle made extremely tender buttermilk biscuits. King Daddy never bothered to stand at…
Southern supper
You just get that itch. It comes sometime around late June or early July around here. You go to the farmer’s market one Saturday just…
8
September
Roasted tomatoes
Somewhere around the beginning of September, I commit heresy. I admit, barely above a whisper, that I’m sick of tomatoes. I remember wistfully those first…
1
September
Olive oil cake
The top search for a dessert on Food52 is not a chocolate torte or peanut butter cookie or apple pie. It’s an olive oil cake….
28
August
We might starve (again)
“I wish I could go in a grocery store,” the Princess said plaintively. Her mother, my beloved daughter-in-law Tammy, does drive by grocery shopping from…
17
August
The best crab cakes
The most perfect crab cake I ever had was served with a side of misery. I was in Wilmington, Delaware, interviewing for an upper management…
12
August
Buttermilk biscuits with honey butter
Buttermilk biscuits are hard. Or they can be. Literally. King Daddy’s Granny Belle made extremely tender buttermilk biscuits. King Daddy never bothered to stand at…
7
August
The 112 dollar bottle of mayonnaise
Dammit Boy loves his mayonnaise. Always has. When he was little he made his own mayonnaise, salt and pepper sandwiches. Yes, he made that up….
29
July
Southern supper
You just get that itch. It comes sometime around late June or early July around here. You go to the farmer’s market one Saturday just…
22
July
No passport required
Two of the most influential culinary lights have gone out. First, Anthony Bourdain in June and now Jonathan Gold a couple of days ago. You…
8
July
Whipped ricotta
This is going to be short and sweet. I have two words for you that will change your life. Whipped ricotta. It’s a thing, whipped…