Late afternoon cocktails. That’s one of the best things about the holidays. Well, aside from the birth of […]
Southern cooking
Your Christmas may smell like pine boughs, or cinnamon, or chocolate, but mine smells like coconut. And liquor. […]
Sister Audnitha’s Filé Gumbo
(Just a quick note before we get into today’s post: We’ve come to the end of the See […]
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 […]
We are a house divided. And it doesn’t have anything to do with football. It does have everything […]
The influence of African-Americans on Southern food cannot be ignored. From greens to okra to ham hocks and […]
It’s time we had a little talk about the semantics of “dressing” versus “stuffing.” Where I come from, […]
