Almost everyone wants to sample the local flavor when they’re in a different city. Some cities can be absolutely overwhelming in the wealth of unique choices available to eaters both timid and adventurous. Savannah is most assuredly one of those cities.
There are plentiful choices available for any taste or budget. The historic downtown alone provides [...]

Guajes, a hard-to-find Mexican treatThanks to a tip from a reader, Taterhead, we’ve embarked on a clandestine love affair. Yes, we’re still on our diet (and shrinking at a rate of 2 pounds per week), but we’ve been sneaky. You see, there are some things that we just can’t resist. And besides, moderation is the [...]

(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)With the smell of pies beginning to fill the car and lunch beginning to settle in our bellies, we began our trek toward Houston. We weren’t quite done with Cajun country, though.
We already trusted Jim Romero to give good directions. We [...]

Jim Romero — magic hands, magic piesWe headed for Jim Romero’s Jim’s Kountry Pies with visions of pies in our heads and an address in our GPS. After just a short drive from Abbeville, Louisiana, and Dupuy’s, our GPS proudly told us “here you are.” Um, no.
Jim’s was nowhere to be seen. Knowing we were [...]

Oysters Rockefeller and boudin ballsOur recent sojourn to south Louisiana allowed us to enjoy wonderful meals, great people and beautiful scenery. One of the places that gave us all three was Dupuy’s Oyster Shop in Abbeville. Dupuy’s first opened for business in 1869 and has been operating from the same location ever since. The simplicity [...]

(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)After our long drive from Memphis to Lafayette en route to Houston, we went straight to sleep and got off to a late start the next morning. Of course what we started was a search for breakfast. The morning’s destination was [...]

(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)For our recent trip to Houston, we decided to eschew the easy fast food at the interstate exits and follow our stomachs (and John T. Edge’s advice) to good, local food whenever and wherever we got hungry on the trip. The [...]

(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)This week, The Squad had the great pleasure of attending the chef’s meal commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of La Tourelle.
I love La Tourelle for its iconic tower, but looking at the the evening’s incredible menu and the stellar lineup of [...]

Yesterday, Mama Squirrel and I went to Magevney House to work at the Slow Food Memphis table. Manning a table is a simple proposition. You stand behind a table that is draped with an eye-catching banner, and you smile, hand out literature, and answer the occasional question. When the table is for Slow Food Memphis, [...]

Here is the correct contact info for Newman Farm:
Newman FarmRt.1 Box 141Myrtle, MO 63778(417) 938-4391
You can also contact them at pork[at]newmanfarm.com. Make sure you replace [at] with @. Spam is one form of pork that we don’t want here.
Better yet, just go visit them. Life can be decent for the animals we eat. Newman Farm [...]