Tag Archives: Food

Bacon! Bacon!

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Who doesn’t love bacon? I’ve never met anyone who hates bacon. We love bacon cheeseburgers, bacon bits, bacon and eggs, BLT’s and bacon lip balm. Yes. Bacon lip balm is available from Thinkgeek.com. So is bacon pop corn, bacon lollipops, … Continue reading →

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Boudin Balls, Crawfish Pies and Cracklin

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Under a sky bluer than any song Robert Johnson ever played, we stared at the boudin balls, crawfish pies and cracklin just inside the little window of a place that will scare the hell out of some people and make … Continue reading →

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Deep Fried Pickles, Sweet Potatoes and Snickers Bars

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Terry Taylor

People will deep-fry anything, especially in the South or at the other place that is a lot like the South-on-tour: a county or state fair. Last week, I had a chance to taste a deep fried pickle at the Highland … Continue reading →

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Lonely-Flamed-Lemon-Beer-Orange-Grilled-Chicken-Thing

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Terry Taylor

{Note: While I don’t agree with everything those 2 gentlemen are doing in that video up there, I do like the weird music, the dude’s Sam Elliot-esque voice and the crowing rooster at the end.} This is not an authentic … Continue reading →

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Meat In a Can

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Just to repeat: Meat in a can. I am laying those words on the page for a few seconds so the concept sinks in.  Meat. Can. Rub your fingers over the two words. Now smell your fingers. Do they smell … Continue reading →

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Dying For a Dilly Bar

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Traffic turned the asphalt of the Mobile Highway into a purring concert of rubber against road. Summer tourists drove south towards the Gulf Coast with Birmingham plates. I had been riding since early morning when the air was cooler, before … Continue reading →

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Using Teabag Like Skoal

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Terry Taylor

There are people in America using teabags like Skoal, putting the little pouches between their cheeks and gums and riding the little bump of flavor for an hour. Don’t ask me how I discovered this. I hang out with odd … Continue reading →

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Smoked Angus, Burnt Wieners and God Bless America

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Terry Taylor

In mid afternoon, the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Virginia issued an air quality alert. The Weather Bug app on my Droid relayed this stifling event to me. The message was like a tornado warning except instead of twisting air, … Continue reading →

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A Damned Good Pickle

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Lunch in the South requires a pickle. Often dinner requires one as well. Breakfasts in Alabama have been known to sport a pickle if it is hot outside, which is about 83% of the time. Southerners love sweet pickles. Bread … Continue reading →

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Cooking Up A Storm Of New Cookbooks

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

There are a lot of new back-to-basics cookbooks being published these days with the Slow Food movement and it’s first through third cousins roaming the aisles at bookstores. Tweet This Post

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Deer Sausage Riding On Cast Iron

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Steve gave me a tubular coil of deer sausage a while back when I was in Alabama. It is darker than pork or beef sausage and much leaner. Steve had shot the deer and a friend had made the sausage … Continue reading →

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Complaining

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Complaining is an art. I know. I have been practicing for years. So have a lot of other people. We complain about politics, our jobs, the weather, our marriages, money, food, health, traffic, the economy – we even complain about … Continue reading →

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Mama J’s Soul Food

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Terry Taylor

I just left Mama J’s, a soul food restaurant in Richmond, Virginia’s Jackson Ward neighborhood. If you are from the South, this mall, family-run business lays down a product that will compete with anything your mom or grandmother or grandfather … Continue reading →

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I’ll Pass On The Cookies, Thank You.

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Terry Taylor

I recently read that a cookie factory in Virginia had to shut down for two weeks to “change the recipe” for frozen cookie dough it manufactures. The same plant had a recall of cookie dough last year for some other … Continue reading →

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Bobby and Paula

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Terry Taylor

During the holidays I was hit by a moment of revelation while watching Bobby Bowden coaching his last game at Florida State. After his final win, he gave a press conference. He was classic Bobby B. I flipped channels and … Continue reading →

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