I have never been a fashion plate. Mama Squirrel has a nice sense of style, but her job pushes her more toward comfort. We both spend our time in cubicles rather than on runways, so the urge for fashion has not been particularly strong. That all changed in the most unlikely of places, Florence, Alabama. [...]
(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)Living a John T. Edge book One of my favorite John T. Edge pieces is in his book Fried Chicken: An American Story. He travels to New Alsace, Indiana, to attend a fried chicken dinner at St. Paul’s Catholic Church. He [...]
Drop twenty random Southerners into a room. Within ten minutes, two of them will have found out that through some connection, however nebulous, they’re kin. Within thirty minutes, more relationships will have been uncovered, and people will be realizing that while they may not be blood kin, they know some of the same people. Give [...]
On Thursday, June 21, the day before the Southern Foodways Alliance‘s Charleston, South Carolina, field trip officially kicks off, there will be a full day of events and dining at Middleton Place Plantation. Middleton Place is one of the most beautiful places I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. The sense of history and [...]
Charleston: Citadel of the LowcountrySeventh Southern Foodways Alliance Field TripJune 22-24, 2007 The Southern Foodways Alliance is planning a field trip to Charleston in late June. This ain’t no everybody-hold-hands let’s-go-see-dinosaur-bones field trip either. The SFA has brought together an all-star lineup from the world of Southern food. And Charleston provides it own lineup of [...]
From the Southern Foodways Alliance website: In concert with the annual Alabama Adventure Weekend, a celebration of handcrafted food, music, art, and fashion to be held April 20-21, 2007, in and around Florence and Tuscumbia, Alabama, the SFA introduces Camp Shoals. Registrants will dine on rabbit and watercress, cooked by Scott Peacock of Watershed Restaurant [...]
