Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
My Mom sent me back from our ski trip with this book and told me to start reading it immediately because she knew I would love it. She was right. The book follows Lavinia, an Irish girl brought to America aboard a Virginia tobacco farmer’s ship at the age of 7. With no family, she…
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Time for the big day! We only had time for lunch and a little relaxation before time to get ready and be downstairs for pictures so my Daddy chose another famed New Orleans restaurant, Acme Oyster House, for lunch. Sure, I’d had some oysters on top of my fish on Friday night, but I hadn’t…
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Major plane probs caused me to arrive in New Orleans for Greg and Susan’s wedding 12 hours late, which meant that once I actually made it there last Friday morning, I was go go go. I’ll be recapping the ridiculously awesome wedding weekend day by day, starting here with day numero uno: I arrived at…
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After a couple days of being extremely lazy, yesterday was certainly a turn of events. I headed to Brooklyn to meet Jen for lunch. Jen let me pick the restaurant, so I chose one I have heard a lot about. egg is constantly written up for their breakfast sandwich and Southern-style cuisine, but the brunch…
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The night before Thanksgiving is usually a crazy night. Everyone comes back in town and a debauchery-filled, unofficial high school reunion ensues. While I had prepared myself for this evening, all of my friends decided not to get back in town til it was too late to go out. Don’t you worry, readers. I got…
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I’m in Savannah!!! I hit the ground running the moment my plane landed and I am ready to tell you all about it. For lunch on Saturday, my parents decided to take me to Tybee (the beach in Savannah) for some “tacos” at Social. Social is an open air, white-washed, rustic building that serves food…
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Yesterday was all about eating in Williamsburg. We started the afternoon by going to 3rd Ward‘s 3rd Annual Pig Out! celebration. 3rd Ward is an artist collective that offers classes and workspace and apparently some pretty awesome events. Check it out if you’re artsy…or if you just like fun, porky events. The team from the…
Read MorePat Conroy has wowed me once again with The Prince of Tides, his novel about a family’s tumultuous home life and their conflicting feelings toward each other. I love everything about Conroy’s writing style and how he makes me yearn for my own Lowcountry. The novel follows Tom Wingo as he relays the complex story…
Read MoreThe Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy was an amazing novel. Conroy is a gifted writer and one of my favorite authors. His flowery writing style could make a dreadfully banal topic seem like the most beautiful things you have ever read. Combine that with the fact that his literary focus is the South, and…
Read MoreKathryn Stockett’s The Help was a wonderful quick read about Mississippi life (and Southern life in general) in 1962. At the crux of the story sit three women – two black, one white – who come together to blur the racial lines that defined their every action. Aside from the fact that I was delighted and…
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Peaches to Apples 