Catfish rights at Husk
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »That's Arthur from L.A. proclaiming his knife-and-fork rights to the cornmeal dusted catfish at Husk in Charleston. The four of us arrived hungry, and you had to be fast when you wanted to taste something. We ordered plates for the ...
Hardwater fishing
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Took off for February adventure with PFE for our latest feature for Maine magazine. Thank you to friends from South Carolina who came along, and to everyone we met in the shacks and on the ice at Baker's Smelt Camps. The ...
Northwest travels
Thursday, September 6th, 2012 Posted in Food, Travel | No Comments »On an assignment in Washington state yesterday, we hopped on the ferry to Lummi Island just in time for breakfast at the Willows Inn. Golden-orange morning light everywhere, and I loved the tea and handmade packaging from Flying Bird Botanicals... We ...
The South + Paris = gorgeous pancakes
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published | No Comments »“Her grandmother’s fried chicken and creamed corn were the beginning. Cynthia spent many a Chattanooga afternoon in her family’s kitchens. And besides a love for southern recipes, she developed a French sensibility early on – Madeline books in hand…” I’ve always ...
Asheville by the Forkful in print
Monday, June 25th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | No Comments »We had to to do some heavy research for this assignment. For a 10-page summer feature in Charleston magazine, Peter Frank Edwards and I spent several days walking and driving around edge-of-the-mountains Asheville, NC in search of great food and ...
Fried shrimp, The Black Keys, and me
Monday, May 7th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »Love this... as part of our North Carolina seafood road trip feature for this month's issue of Our State magazine, the editors asked about the music we listened to during the assignment. A playlist from contributors (including PFE, and me) ...
Sweet Carolina
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | 1 Comment »Our 13-stop North Carolina dessert tour gets 40(!), photo-rich pages in this month's Our State, a legend of southern publications -- in print for nearly 80 years. What a plum assignment. Peter Frank Edwards and I drove hundreds of miles, ...
Snow is the “S” factor
Monday, January 16th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »After a snowy night in Portland we're up early, and soon we’re onto ME-26 and driving north on a route that passes Gray, Bryant Pond, and Paris. "Everywhere, the landscape is buried, and branches of the spruce and pines droop ...
Po’ Boys and Papa Noel
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | No Comments »Loved getting back to New Orleans for "Crescent City Christmas," an eight-page feature in the December 2011 issue of Southern Living. From the opener: CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS: In New Orleans, traditions are as thick as roux. To get your fill in ...
Eleven Cooking: PALATE is out
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People | No Comments »I had a great time interviewing 11 Charleston-area chefs for the cover story of the premiere issue of THE LOCAL PALATE, now out in print. The premise was to ask each chef five basic questions about Charleston's food and food ...
Summer start in Spoleto
Sunday, June 26th, 2011 Posted in Food, Travel | No Comments »In Rome this month after joining PFE Photo for an assignment, I took the chance to go out on a solo adventure. At the Termini Stazione in the late afternoon, I pulled my smallest suitcase onto a train that followed ...
Oyster drive in winter-white Maine
Sunday, March 13th, 2011 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »I'm so excited to see this in print. Below is the opener for our first piece for Maine magazine, "Oyster Drive," a 9-page feature in the March issue. (Yes, that's an oysterman collecting oysters in the snow - Adam Campbell ...