This is Marie, contributing an article about grapefruit marmalade. I first ran across the recipe at a blog called Food in Jars. This reminds me, incidentally, that my husband has been on a tear trying to get out the message that people should not delete their blogs if they happen to lose interest in writing them, as they are a resource to others; while I have no expectation that a site as popular as this one will go down, it is nevertheless a good idea to print out any recipes you happen to run across online just in case. Continue reading “Grapefruit Marmalade”
Saltwood, Atlanta GA
A few weeks ago, Marie and I were invited to visit Saltwood, a new restaurant in the Loews Atlanta hotel in midtown. It opened in early April, replacing a popular lunch place called Eleven, and it’s led by Executive Chef Olivier Gaupin and Sous Chef Chris Español, who stopped by to say hello and tell us a bit about the menu. The concept here is small plates and charcuterie, with local meats, cheeses, and seasonal vegetables. Marie and I had a pretty good time. Continue reading “Saltwood, Atlanta GA”
Cơm Dunwoody Vietnamese Grill Fusion, Dunwoody GA
It’s always interesting to visit two restaurants as determinedly different as the two locations of Cơm in Atlanta are. We had dinner with some friends at the Buford Highway location in late 2013 and really enjoyed it. It seems like a mostly traditional menu, comparable to many of the other Vietnamese restaurants in the area, and they serve a shaking chicken dish that Marie still considers one of, if not the outright best, of any meal she’s had at any Buford Highway restaurant. Continue reading “Cơm Dunwoody Vietnamese Grill Fusion, Dunwoody GA”
Dandelion Jelly
This is Marie, writing about a canning experiment that turned out very well. I had read an article about dandelion jelly here (http://www.simplycanning.com/dandelion-jelly.html) and it proved irresistible – in part because I’d been itching since January to do strawberry jam so anything to take the edge off (i.e. Feed my addiction to canning) was welcome, and in part because the flowers are free so the experiment would only cost the price of the sugar and any wasted lids. Continue reading “Dandelion Jelly”
The Garden at Community Smith, Atlanta GA
You may have noticed that we’re more likely to visit and write about a fifty year-old barbecue shack a hundred miles from anywhere than we are to sip cocktails at a nice patio in a major metropolis, but one doesn’t like to turn down invitations to mixers, and so a couple of weeks ago, I joined a few other local writers for a meet-and-greet at the absolutely beautiful Garden at Community Smith, located atop the Renaissance Hotel on West Peachtree in midtown. Continue reading “The Garden at Community Smith, Atlanta GA”
Betty’s Bar-B-Q, Anniston AL
In early 2014, one of the five or six best barbecue restaurants in Alabama closed after a run of 63 years. It was called Goal Post and it was really terrific. It was a place that I had wanted to visit for ages on the strength of its terrific sign. See, anybody can say that some barbecue is good, and sometimes you can trust the source and sometimes you don’t know them, but you see a picture of a sign as amazing as Goal Post’s, and you just have to see it in person. Art’s like that. Continue reading “Betty’s Bar-B-Q, Anniston AL”
Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q, Bessemer AL
We try to avoid letting personal sadness get into the blog much, but, as some of our friends know, we had some pretty terrible turmoil in our lives some months after my dad passed away in 2011, and, the following year, it got a lot worse before it got resolved. The bottom line is that, for many years, my daughter has seen very, very little of her mother, who lives in Kentucky, and we have, for many of the same reasons, seen very, very little of my older son, who lives there with her. Continue reading “Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q, Bessemer AL”
Marie, Let's Eat! 