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Bacon! Bacon!

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

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

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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Meat In a Can

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

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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Smoked Angus, Burnt Wieners and God Bless America

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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Cooking Up A Storm Of New Cookbooks

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.

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Deer Sausage Riding On Cast Iron

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

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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I’ll Pass On The Cookies, Thank You.

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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