[polldaddy poll=3549612] The idea for this poll came to me because of a rather poignant comment by a reader. The comment, like so many other things I’ve read and heard in the past year, gave me reason to pause and consider things a bit differently. I have always loved meat. And while I’ve pointed out my granddad seemed to think… Read More
The state fair, a local county fair…. it’s amazing to me how different the pictures in my mind are now from what they used to be. I grew up a city girl and although I do remember where the livestock area was at my local fair (the Mid-South Fair which has moved locations recently), I only remember a hurried run-through… Read More
Its a concept I’ve heard discussed time and time again. Food Rules author Michael Pollan said it in an interview with Slash Food — “don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” Proponents of only eating those foods your grandparents (or great-grandparents in some cases) would recognize. The concept behind this is the foods previous generations ate were homemade… Read More
A couple of times I have been stopped in my tracks while browsing my timeline by a photo someone had posted. And several times that has been over some yummy goodness cooked up in a kitchen somewhere. Another one was posted recently and I knew immediately that these are food poll material without a doubt! What types of baked goods… Read More
I love it when my blog gets people talking & last week’s food poll on barbecue sure did that! It even spurred a certain friend to tell me that he was taking me on! And yes, he mounted a campaign on Facebook and Twitter AND YET MEMPHIS pulled pork won! To promote some healing, I’d like to set this week’s… Read More
When I decided to do a food poll each week of the summer, I knew this day would come. The day at which time, the gloves came off and I started the real debate. Nothing is more likely to get an argument going it seems in my travel than football conference loyalty or preferred barbecue style. Given the recent hubbub… Read More
