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 ...
Art, dresses, beer in Asheville
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, Travel | No Comments »I've got a new travel feature in this month's Charleston Magazine, May 2010. For the magazine's annual arts issue, photographer Peter Frank Edwards and I went to Asheville, NC and met some of artists, crafters and designers there. Below are ...
Road trip to paddle
Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Put the canoe on the wagon and go. We did, and drove on up to the Congaree National Park near Columbia, South Carolina, the state's only national park. On Cedar Creek you can lay back in the canoe and just ...
Oyster note in T+L
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »Oysters make a nice valentine, I think. I had the chance to write up a few South Carolina oyster-eating places in Travel + Leisure's cover-story round-up of romantic destinations. Here's my blurb, on page 9o, titled "A Low-Country Drive." You ...
Catching up with snow
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in Travel | 1 Comment »Last week in the North Carolina mountains, the fluff of snow piled high on pine branches. Tiny flakes blew and sparkled in the sunlight. Everyone talked of the snowfall and temperatures in the teens that had set into the High ...
Mississippi morning
Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Last week in Mississippi, there was frost in Oxford two mornings in row. On a drive south and east of town, most of the fields were well-picked, with bits of cotton edging the roads where truckloads of the tufts must ...
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 ...
Pumpkin farm stop
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Home & garden, People, Travel | No Comments »Before he switched over to planting patches of pumpkins, squash and peas, Mr. Billy Lineberry grew long rows of tobacco. "He was a tobacco farmer, until all that ended," his wife said, then leaned down to pick up their shivering ...
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 ...
Carolina drive time
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Travel | No Comments »For the current issue of G Magazine, I wrote about a summer road trip across the upstate of South Carolina. With photographer ...
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 ...
Singing on St. Helena
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Travel | No Comments »In a white-painted, one-room building on St. Helena Island, Joseph “Rev.” Bryant was singing “Oh Lord, come by here.” His voice filled the spare, shed-sized structure, with its benches of narrow boards nailed together, one bare bulb in the ceiling. ...