Weekly Column

The King of All Breakfast Foods (In honor of the Queen of Pancakes)

I am a bonafide breakfast person. I was born a breakfast person, all through my early school years I was a breakfast person, and I […]

Feeding Methodists

This past Sunday was the first Easter Sunday in which I have missed attending a church service in a long time. My family and I […]

Help Is on the Way

One year ago today, my life seemed to be at a complete standstill. The global pandemic was shifting into second gear, my city and state […]

Culinary Carpe Diem and Bread, the King and Queen of All Carbs

Last week I received the sad news that Barbara Thomas, of Barbara’s Home Cookin’ in Franklin, Tennessee, passed away. Thomas opened the popular meat-and-three café […]

Visionaries and Pies

Bar owner Neal Bodenheimer is an intrepid trailblazer. It takes courage and nerve to go into an uncharted New Orleans neighborhood devoid of restaurants, taverns, […]

The Simplicity of the Perfect Potato

If I could only choose one vegetable to eat for the rest of my life the choice would be easy. I like asparagus, but the […]

My New Toaster

If someone were to put a contract hit out on me, it might be the easiest termination in hitman history. I’m not that hard to […]

Not Just Another Dinner

This column is written in the afterglow of a special weekend. I just spent the past few days with my wife, daughter, and son— just […]

Snowy Day

Mississippi is closed today. As I type a winter storm has just passed through the entire state leaving a blanket of snow and ice. The […]

Restaurant Honeymoons

There are two types of honeymoons. The relational kind that one experiences as a newlywed, full of bliss and joy, and the foodservice variety one […]

A Mad Day Out

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of the Beatles. Anyone who knows Beatles history knows that on July 28, 1968, […]

Claws and Wings

Some of the restaurant world’s greatest food items have come from mistakes, near mistakes, the need to use by-products, and items that were— at one […]