Best Food Writing Anthologies And Blogs

So, of course, I had noticed these anthologies of the Best Food Writing of whatever year, edited by Holly Hugues, when they first appeared annually starting in 2000.
But I hadn’t really read any of them until this May when I picked up the fifth anniversary edition, Best Food Writing 2004 while I was in Tennessee […]

How Many Food Magazines Are There?

That’s a rhetorical question.
I really don’t know the answer.
But I do know this–there are a whole bunch of them.
Big ones.
Small ones.
Thick ones.
Thin ones.
This one has a shiny car,This one has a cookie star,What a lot of ‘zines there are!
(Okay, Dr. Seuss, I am truly sorry for bunging up your brilliant poetry. But the number of […]

Turkey Aquisition Complete!

We went to Columbus yesterday to pick up a turkey at the North Market Poultry and Game stall. I didn’t call ahead or order one; I did that when we lived in Pataskala, but last year, because we had been focused on looking at houses in Athens, I forgot to order ahead of time, but […]

Weekend Cat Blogging: Are you a Good Cat or a Bad Cat?

I promised a few more pictures of Dandelion for today’s weekend cat blogging, so here are a couple that show the two sides of her personality.
On the left, you see she is alert, sweet-tempered and gentle. Playful and inclined to purr.
On the right, you see the Cat from Hell.
Actually, on the right you see her […]

Jambalaya Juju

It is spicy.
It involves rice.
It has sausage and ham in it.
Did I mention, it is spicy and involves rice?
Oh, yeah, I did.
Well, you can see why I think jambalaya may be my all-time favorite bit of American Southern Country-Folk food of all time.
Because it is spicy, involves rice and it has sausage and ham in […]