No recall here… I feel like giving these hens a hug
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in Food, Home & garden | No Comments »This morning, Pip, Red and Puny pecked and scratched at the corn kernels and cobs leftover from our last night’s dinner. At some point today, each of the three hens will likely hop into a galvanized tub in the potting ...
Fat lemons, rustic pasta and tiny clams on the Mediterranean Sea
Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Food, Travel, Wine | No Comments »Just back from the ferry boats, footpaths and winding roads of Capri, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello… The mountains on the Amalfi Coast rise right up out of the sea, and the towns are built into them, terraced and layered in the ...
Serving lump crab and pickled shrimp for almost 50 years
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »For a winter issue of Grand Strand magazine, I had the chance to write a cover story about a restaurant I've known since I was a teenager - the old Sea Captain's House, oceanfront in Myrtle Beach. The story and ...
Sauerkraut and Belon
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »On a November drive on the Maine coast north of Portland, we stopped in at Morse's Sauerkraut for a quart of their brined cabbage. I love the sour crunch, hot or cold. We met one of the owners and learned ...
Beers with the supper club starter
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »I've been back on the underground supper club beat again, and wrote a profile of jimihatt for the new "people" issue of Charleston Magazine, just out. Here's an excerpt: Meeting at James Island’s Zia Taqueria over tacos and beer, “jimihatt” arrives ...
Green days, Campari nights
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Food, Travel, Wine | No Comments »Typically I’m not much of a lush, but last weekend I got pretty well intoxicated by Greenville, South Carolina. The premise was an assignment about the city's food scene, and we spent the better part of two days along the ...
A classic beauty
Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in Food | No Comments »I just walked around my house and found old copies of Gourmet in four different rooms. We don't throw them away. The Paris issue, one with a John T. Edge piece on barbecue, this cover shot by Martyn Thompson of ...
Fall’s backyard and breakfast
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Food, Home & garden, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »Fall's coming and the eating is fine. Last night we ate hot forkfuls of smoky orange-yolk eggs, gathered in the backyard and fried with butter and chopped basil. The grill is set under the pecan trees, and we broke pecan ...
July Mainer
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »Sunshine is even more precious in Maine this summer. Everyone talks of the rainy weeks of June. One lobsterman shook his head and said, "Ain't had no spring. Hardly had no summer." But since arriving on the eve of July ...
Chinatown soaker worth it for the okra
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Food, Travel | No Comments »Sloshed far down Canal Street in the torrents on Thursday. Cold and wet, feet soaked through, umbrellas blown backwards, we met for the deep bowl of soba noodles in a smoky fish flake broth, the cleaver-chopped roast duck with crisped ...
Barbecue backroads makes G&G cover
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | No Comments »The open-spoke steering wheel is as wide as a bicycle wheel in my hands, and I’m cruising – floating almost – on two-lane asphalt in a tar-black Chevrolet, passing pine tree rows, tobacco barns, railroad crossings. Pulling up in a ...
Guerrilla Bite
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »Back on the covert dining beat, I wrote this Quick Bite feature for the May 2009 Charleston Magazine, the arts issue with the Shepard Fairey cover. I'm a fan of street art and underground supper clubs, so it was a ...