By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Hell and high water (interchangeable with Lord willing and the creek don’t rise): Usually expressed as “Come Hell and...
Wally Joe, chef-owner of the contemporary Memphis restaurant, Acre, began cooking haute cuisine in the unlikeliest of places: the Mississippi Delta. For years he and his...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com In this four-part series, food writer Laurie Triplette focues on demystifying olive oil, which has been a darling of the American food world...
Who likes flatbread pizza? Everybody, right? HottyToddy.com’s wellness friends from BJC HealthCare present this healthy cooking video on preparing the perfect flatbread pizza dish. In this...
A Delta debutante, a planter’s daughter from Rosedale who married a farmer – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (Luke) Lamar II from Sumner, great-great-great grandson of L.Q.C Lamar....
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: About as useful as a screen door on a submarine: A sarcastic expression implying that something or someone is...
Two pale yellow daffodils, in a clear shot glass, glowed in the 4 o’clock afternoon light filling the Snackbar restaurant. The restaurant is small. A notice...
By: Tom Freeland, HottyToddy.com, Blogger I’ve posted, probably more than once, about my strongly held opinion that, at Payne’s barbecue, what you want is sliced meat...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week Stem-winder: A person who’s liable to give a rousing speech or effective recap of a situation; also someone or...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week Stem-winder: A person who’s liable to give a rousing speech or effective recap of a situation; also someone or...