Gin and Tonic – a classic cocktail
I love gin. It’s probably my favorite spirit to use in a cocktail. Tom Collins. Aviations. French 75's. Martinis. I love the perfume of botanicals that transforms a neutral distillation of malt, rye, wheat and/or corn. Juniper berries give gin…
Making Lemon Chess Pie – a Southern traditional recipe
Do people in other parts of the country make chess pie? Even though I'm not from the Deep South, I've eaten chess pie my whole life. It's hard to imagine someone not knowing about it. Brought over from England, the…
Retro 1950’s Cocktail – The Moscow Mule
Entertaining friends for the season premiere of "Mad Men" sent me looking for retro cocktails of the 1950's and 1960's to serve. Looking through cocktail guides from that time, one drink that kept popping up was The Moscow Mule. A snappy…
Stuffed Chard Leaves
When I opened up my first CSA box* of the season last week, the first thing that I saw was a bundle of colorful Rainbow Chard sitting on top. Besides being so vibrantly beautiful, they were big. Big enough to…
Making Lard at Home
The Income Tax Cocktail
Sorry to be a party pooper, but it’s April 12th and that means that it’s the last weekend for you to work on your tax returns. So, to either get you in the right frame of mind for going through…
Rincon Latino – Pupusas and Salvadoran food in Atlanta
Since we’re spending Spring Break this year in Atlanta, we’re trying to compensate for our lack of beach action by doing fun “staycation” adventures in town. Part of being a tourist in your own town means hitting up your restaurant…
The Algonquin Cocktail
Winter is refusing to leave Atlanta on-schedule this year. With a bit of nip still in the air at night, it makes me want to linger a bit longer in the "brown liquor" season. The Tom Collins and Mojitos will…
Saag Paneer – Indian creamed spinach
My daughter, Anna, and I decided to give up meat this spring for Lent. Going meatless for a month and a half is not really that big of a deprivation, but it did challenge me to rethink my standard meat-and-two…
My Bánh Mì obsession
Okay, maybe it’s not really an obsession, but there is not much else that will make me drive 10 miles of crosstown Atlanta traffic for lunch. Bánh mì is the Vietnamese equivalent of a sub sandwich. Owing to the French Colonial…