The inaugural Savannah Food & Wine Festival will be held from November 11 to 17, 2013. The weeklong event will fill a traditionally slow week in the city’s cultural calendar. The festival has already attracted a good bit of local…
In a recent City Talk column (New growler store adds to Savannah’s growing beer culture) in the Savannah Morning News, I wrote about some of the beer news around these parts in recent years. And today there’s news of Two…
From a City Talk column in 2009, French food to go on Broughton Street: On my first anonymous trip, I tried a tartine ($7.99), which is defined as a “French open-faced sandwich.” The relatively thinly sliced bread was covered with…
It’s probably a little early to get too excited about this since the projected opening isn’t until March 2014, but Atlanta Magazine has an interesting piece: Hugh Acheson On His Upcoming Savannah Restaurant – Covered Dish Blog. Acheson owns Five…
What a lovely surprise on Sunday to hear Cheryl Day’s voice on “The Splendid Table”, American Public Media’s show hosted by the sometimes-overly-cheery Lynne Rossetto Kasper.
Jean Anderson’s column in today’s Wall Street Journal — Southern Hospitality, Wrapped Up – WSJ.com — has a subhead that says it all: “Below the Mason-Dixon, Christmas comes in bite-size portions, baked to box and share”.
“Just 10 years ago it would have been impossible to draw 500 participants and over 30 food vendors and producers to an event focused on local, sustainable food. And the Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network (ASAN) has a lot to do with the grassroots movement behind the change. For a decade the nonprofit has been gathering small-scale farmers and ranchers throughout the state in an effort to organize, educate, and network producers and consumers.”
About a week and a half ago, I started a post about Savannah celebrity chef Paula Deen’s admission that she has type 2 diabetes (I did not realize at the time that she has had it for 3 years) and…
If you’re interested in “slow food”, “farm to table”, “eating local”, or any of the other relatively recent efforts to bring back old ways of thinking about food production, purchase, and consumption — or if you are just interested in…
Really? I have my doubts on this one, but who argues against Travel and Leisure’s almost endless lists? Their latest list covers America’s Best Cities for Foodies: “Travel + Leisure readers pick the best cities for foodies, where that next…
