Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
BBQ and fried chicken are two Southern staples. But what if we combined them? Doubly Southern and doubly awesome. This could easily be made with chicken, but turkey cutlets were in the house so that’s what I made. Fill a large ziploc bag with panko bread crumbs and a bowl with your favorite bbq sauce. (I used…
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I continue to get creative with Taco Tuesday. [Currently patting myself on the back.] My last invention blended Mexican tacos with my Southern heritage. I slathered chicken tenders with bar-b-cue sauce and baked them for about 20 minutes at 425. (Those little strips cook up fast!) When they were done, I chopped the chicken til…
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Sarah Grimké is headstrong and opinionated and when she is given her own slave on her eleventh birthday, she rejects the gift on principle. After she learns she cannot exactly do that, she and the young girl, Handful, establish a relationship built upon the idea that they should be seen as equals. With Sarah’s help,…
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Not all Southern food is created equal. While I may know just about all there is to know about Lowcountry cuisine, creole food is a whole different story. Of course I enjoy it. Of course I will eat all the cajun food in sight, if possible. Of COURSE I want to boogie to Hank Williams’…
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The menu is small at Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter. They’re pretty much telling you “get the fried chicken, dummy!…but in case you’re a vegetarian we got catfish, too.” So that’s what Albert and I did. We both ordered the fried chicken platter (only $11.50), which comes with three pieces of chicken, a biscuit, and…
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After a busy weekend running around at all the wedding festivities, I really just wanted to spend Sunday evening at home. I could cook a real meal, watch True Blood, and go to sleep early. Since Albert agreed to my request to stay in, I decided to make him something I knew he would enjoy…
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Last week I went to my first ever SummerStage concert. SummerStage is a concert series in Central Park that provides both free and not free music throughout the summer. Concerts are always a good time but my mind was blown when I saw they had food and beer stalls. Lo and behold! Food and beer…
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I was feeling a little homesick so recently I opened up my copy of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I’m not sure if it cured my homesickness or just made me yearn for my beautiful and unique hometown more than ever. Either way, it’s a great read. John Berendt’s work of non-fiction…
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Here in the North, shrimp is never the main meal. I pretty much only ever see it as a shrimp cocktail appetizer or as the protein in a pasta dish. But as a Lowcountry girl I’m used to shrimp being the main event. When you can catch the main course for free off your dock,…
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It’s rare that I make breakfast on the weekends. I usually either use the weekend as an excuse to grab a bagel or breakfast sandwich from around the corner or to sleep in, lounge around, and make lunch my first meal. But this Sunday I convinced Albert to come over for a proper weekend brunch.…
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Peaches to Apples 