Saturday at P.M. King’s Gro.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »

Down on Wadmalaw Island where the road splits to go either to Rockville or Cherry Point, Simon Black had the BBQ drum cooker going hot with some split oak - he adds pecan or hickory wood when he has it. ...

Barbecue parlors and whirligigs

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 Posted in Food, Travel | No Comments »

Just back tonight from a three-day road trip in eastern North Carolina... have some mementos. The color shot is one I took with my old Polaroid camera while the wind was making the whirligigs at Vollis Simpson's place whir and ...

Southern supper clubs in new G&G

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Food, In print/published | No Comments »

The rabbit – from the ranch of a Frenchman-turned-Texan named Sebastian – was fried in just-rendered pork fat. “That’s better than any vegetable oil,” said Jesse Griffiths, who’d rounded up ingredients and was doing most of the cooking that night.  ...

Heidi Klum, airplanes and me

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »

A couple weeks ago I began an assignment to write a batch of articles for a summer issue of Delta Sky magazine. The in-flight magazine has just gotten a fresh re-design, and the editors sent over a copy of the ...