How did the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission know we are growing our own sweet potatoes? I just received an e-mail urging me to enter a “bloggers recipe contest” sponsored by the sweet potato commission. I might have blown it off, but the reward for best recipe is $1,000. That got me thinking maybe I […]
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The movie “My Cousin Vinny” gave us a classic laugh line when actor Joe Pesci, playing a New Jersey lawyer confronting breakfast in the Deep South, asks: “What’s a grit?” There’s still some confusion over whether “grits” should be treated in the singular or the plural. But there’s no mistaking where grits come from. They […]
In my youth, I set a personal best at Raclette with 13 servings. That would be 13 swipes of the knife as you see in this picture, 13 times the cheese was set before the fireplace until it became molten. I don’t know what possessed me to perform such a stunt. That was back in […]
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