I don't know how it came up in conversation, but my good friend Carolyn was telling me about drinking tomato beer during her summers in Savannah. My first thought about combining beer with tomato juice was "Yuck. That cannot be…
Grilled fish is one of our favorite summer dinners, but not all fish do well cooked over a dry heat. Some fish do better poached or steamed. One way to prepare them is by cooking fish in parchment paper, or…
Getting dressed for the pool last weekend convinced me that it was time to go back on a diet. What a drag. When I'm watching my weight, giving up alcohol is one of the first things I have to do.…
Shirred eggs... as in, eggs cooked gently in an oven inside ramekins placed in a water bath. Shirred duck eggs... as in, I had the chance to buy a half dozen duck eggs from my CSA last week. Shirred duck…
Forget Red State vs. Blue State. Okra divides this country as surely as any October college football rivalry. You either "get" okra, or you don't. And if you live outside of the South, you probably just don't get it. I know.…
One of my favorite local bakeries, Alon's, makes one of my all-time favorite sandwiches - the Tunisian Spicy Tuna. It is a combination of quality canned tuna, potato, hard-boiled egg, capers, harissa sauce and, an unusual ingredient, preserved lemon. If you…
When I finished my lard rendering project, I was left with about 4 cups of cracklins. Cracklins (or cracklings) are crispy bits of fried pork fat. They are pretty much just like the crispy ends of a bacon strip. Not…
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…
