Your Christmas may smell like pine boughs, or cinnamon, or chocolate, but mine smells like coconut. And liquor. […]
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Ambrosia — food of the gods. And food of the Southerner, especially around Christmas. It’s so good you’ll […]
It was Christmas day in the early double aughts, and it was just Sonny, Brother, and me. We’d […]
Picture in your mind a round disc of sugar and butter with pecans in it. Do you call […]
Lemon Jelly Cake
One of my favorite cakes is a Lemon Jelly Cake — yellow cake layers with lemon filling in […]
Sometimes I play “eat the pantry.” Every so often I wind up with a pantry full of canned […]
You’ve planned and shopped for weeks to get ready for Thanksgiving. You’ve cooked for two days, maybe even […]
It’s time we had a little talk about the semantics of “dressing” versus “stuffing.” Where I come from, […]
In the mid 1890s, my great grandfather, Andrew Joseph Rowell, Jr., was a young man in need of […]
I can take a hint. That’s why when Daddy mailed me the recipe for his foolproof Thanksgiving turkey, […]
