Eating Oxford

Double Decker 2025: A Celebration of Music, Art, and Community in the Heart of Oxford

Oxford’s Double Decker Festival brings two days of live music, art vendors, Southern food, and family fun to the Square.

Southern Foodways Alliance Extends Deadline for Oral History Workshop

The SFA is currently taking applications for our 2015 Oral History Workshop, and there’s still time to apply! Application Deadline has been EXTENDED to Monday,...

Embers Biscuits & Barbecue Changing Name, Adding Location on Jackson Ave.

Embers Biscuits & Barbecue is growing with a second location, an expanded menu and a brand new name for both restaurants. “I really didn’t plan...

On Cooking Southern: Cinco de Mayo Time for Mexican Feast

SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Happy as a pig in mud: The way some of us parents are feeling this week in anticipation of our offspring...

Two Ways to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Oxford

Cinco de Mayo is here, and Oxford's Mexican restaurants are celebrating around town. The celebrators can buy the official Casa Mexicana's Cinco de Mayo shirt...

On Cooking Southern: Strawberries and Rhubarb Herald Spring

SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK She’s just paving the road: Not a reference to road repairs by the Highway Department … Instead, an observation that the...

Brower Mitchell: Coca-Cola Cake for the Whole Family

Whenever granddaughter Maggie is visiting, she states her preference for Cracker Barrel whenever we go out for breakfast. Recently as we were waiting for...

Ingraham Blows Away Competition in Spring Baking Premiere

Did y'all watch City Grocery Group's executive pastry chef Dwayne Ingraham win two challenges in the Food Network's Spring Baking Championship premiere? If not,...

City Grocery’s Dwayne Ingraham Competes in Food Network’s Spring Baking Championship

The man responsible for the delectable desserts at a list of Oxford hot spots is moving through the Food Network shows, premiering on a...

Living Foods: Organic Café, Market Offering Local, Organic Products in Oxford

Local Oxford resident Melody Sharp opened Living Foods: Organic Café and Market last year. Taking advantage of a growing trend that involves healthy options,...

On Cooking Southern: Slurp Some More Mudbugs — in a Cup

SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK She’s beginning to lose the plot: A kind and subtle reference to a person’s increasingly muddled state of mind… Crawfish season...