Stable Staples Every home has a stable staple. A stable staple is an item that is almost, if not always, in an individual’s home kitchen. It varies from home to home and is usually located in an heirloom cookie jar, or a favored Pyrex dish, tucked away on a special shelf in the pantry, or [...]

Tailgating During Fall in Mississippi It’s mid September in Mississippi. Is it fall yet? Yesterday I was watching the Weather Channel and the announcer talked about “fall” weather in the Northeast. Fall in September? You’ve got to be kidding. Not down here. We know the word “fall,” but we never experience the actual season until [...]

Tailgating During Fall in Mississippi It’s mid September in Mississippi. Is it fall yet? Yesterday I was watching the Weather Channel and the announcer talked about “fall” weather in the Northeast. Fall in September? You’ve got to be kidding. Not down here. We know the word “fall,” but we never experience the actual season until [...]

The Denomination of Punch I am a Methodist because my grandfather owned a pair of shoes. My great-grandmother was a Baptist. My great-grandfather was a Methodist. My grandfather was the oldest of seven boys. His family was poor and could only afford Sunday shoes for the two oldest boys. The five younger boys stayed barefoot [...]

Hurricane Food As I sit and write this column, I am watching the television coverage of Hurricane Gustav as it makes landfall a few hundred miles west of my breakfast room. My family hunkered down several days in advance this time, which beats the last minute scramble we endured before Hurricane Katrina. This morning I [...]

Subway 911 A man in Jacksonville, Fla. was arrested last week for making fraudulent 911 calls.He wasn’t calling the police station to ask if their “refrigerator is running?” and he wasn’t asking the dispatcher if she had “Prince Albert in a can?” The Associated Press reported that Reginald Peterson was hauled off to the pokey [...]

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Eating Ones Way Through the 100-Meter Freestyle My wife is nuts about the Summer Olympics. Every television in our home is tuned to the games in China and she calls me hourly with details of how well the United States is doing against the Lithuanian handball team. I’m more of a Winter Olympics-type guy. I’ll [...]

Peaches One of the unexpected benefits of writing a weekly food column which is centered mostly around food is that people always give me food. I love my job. At a book signing earlier this year a man walked up with a flat of blackberries and blueberries. “Here, check these out,” he said. An entire [...]

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