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Thank you, Ronni Lundy! This morning my bank account received my first Social Security Payment. I filled the tank with gas, went to the grocery to fill the cupboard and fridge and will log on shortly to fill the online electric account with kilowatts. I’m writing to thank you, Ronni Lundy, for starting work at [...]
An apartment dog in a southern mountain town will have you out two times a day, up down, down, down, up and up and one more and then the stairs. It doesn’t matter if there’s sleet or snow or icy May rain that blows up from the ground and under the lid of your slicker. [...]
I come from people who eat their food with relish. Of course, the people I come from more commonly refer to that relish as either chow chow or piccalilli. Now right here is the place where a keen editor would pencil in the margin: “What’s the difference?” And having written about food for keen editors [...]
These are more than a few of my favorite things: 1. The Southern Foodways Alliance continues to demonstrate its vitality and relevance by making room at the big table for young southerners with a penchant for all things food. And it’s not just about The Stars who have been christened by somebody from “somewhere off.” [...]
Eating low fat, low salt Chex mix with garlic hummus at noon, I realize my traditional New Year’s celebration has started early and will end so as well. Somewhere in the last decade my enthusiasm for staying up late into a dark damp deep midwinter night only to greet two more months of such dark [...]
In his magical novel, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea limns the grief of the Urrea Rancho people, in exodus from Sinoloa to Sonora, in a tortilla: “The Sinaloans had heard that the Sonorans indulged in the unspeakable atrocity of eating flour tortillas. Flour! Any human being knew that tortillas were made of corn. So [...]
