Zucchini bread

If there is any more hated word in the Southern lexicon than zucchini I don’t know what it is. It’s not that we don’t like…

Cornbread

We in the South are much like the people of France. We are barely done with one meal before we’re talking about the next. So…

Light biscuits

I have to thank a nice lady behind the counter at Mrs. Winners for teaching me about light biscuits. I don’t mean by weight. I…

Pearlman

Where do I start? In 1993, I became the features editor at The Tennessean. Feature stories are supposed to be wild, unexpected, entertaining. Ours were…