The South Will Rise

I can’t believe it is Thanksgiving week already!!  We are headed up to the mountains tomorrow, and thanks to Mother Nature, it looks like it will be absolutely freezing up there with hopefully some snow.  My sister and her family are driving down from New York, and Walker can’t wait to see his cousins.  He […]

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I am not sure what Thanksgiving is like in your family, but we usually eat our meal in the late afternoon.  I like this because it gives everyone plenty of time to do what they need/want to do beforehand.  Corby has a tradition of going for a Thanksgiving day bicycle ride which is usually 40-50 […]

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My entire family is spending Thanksgiving together up in the mountains.  Granted there are only 11 of us, so it is not that huge, but we did want to make Thanksgiving as easy as possible- especially on my mother who usually does everything.  So take the load off of her for a year, my brother […]

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I can’t wait to go to work on Tuesday, November 19th.  I work at the Charleston Library Society, and on that day, we are hosting Nathalie Dupree and Patricia Moore-Pastides for an event showcasing the new book Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart.  Here is a description of the […]

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I have seen lots of pictures on Facebook of friends with their children picking apples and enjoying the crisp fall weather.  While we don’t really have apple picking down here as such, I do love living vicariously through my friends that live further north.  Fortunately, my yahoo.com home page seems to read my mind occasionally, […]

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