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A Bowl Full of Fall Flavors

Posted in Cooking, Dinner, Fun on Sep 19th, 2013

We are taking a house party up to Linville in about a month, and I am so excited for it that I have already started planning the menu.  I was going to the traditional spaghetti sauce, homemade bread and salad for dinner one night because it is what we always have for house parties in […]

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My Grandmother’s Chicken Salad

Posted in Cooking on Jun 6th, 2012

My grandmother used to make the best chicken salad in the world.  Whether we were visiting her in Columbia or up in the mountains, during the summer, there was always a big green tupperware container of chicken salad in the refrigerator.  She refused to give my mother the recipe for years which was pretty maddening […]

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Southern Food Primer

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Desserts on May 6th, 2010

If you’re into southern baking enough to be here on this blog, odds are you may not need a primer on southern food, but just in case you want one anyway the good folks over at Southern Foodways have one all wrapped up for you: Southern Food Primer John Egerton writes, “Within the South itself, […]

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Durham NC’s Watts Grocery Bakes

Posted in Desserts on Apr 24th, 2010

Pecan-Cornmeal Butter Cakes The New York Times April 20 Dining section has a great story about the flowering of restaurants in Durham, North Carolina (Durham, a Tobacco Town, Turns to Local Food).  When I lived there in the 1970s, the food was great, but the range of cookery was nowhere as bountiful as it is […]

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