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Mary Mac’s Tea Room: 65 Years of Recipes from Atlanta’s Favorite Dining Room. John Ferrell. Andrews McMeel Publishing. $27.99 (208p) ISBN: 978-0-7407-9338-7
Recipes that don’t call for fancy seasoned salts, or Madagascar peppercorns? Is there something wrong here? No, of course not. I was reminded when reading and cooking from Mary Mac’s Tea Room that a [...]
Chefs and winemakers can be a rough and tumble crowd. Throw butchers into the mix and watch out. Then there are chefs who also butcher. Time to run the other way. This spring my friend, Jo Stougaard (of My Last Bite), and I attended ‘Cochon 555 – 5 Chefs, 5 Pigs, 5 Winemakers’ in the [...]
3.0 miles, about 9 minutes, from my home in Atwater Village.
Foraging? There seems to be a new movement afoot in the food and restaurant worlds. Or is it simply an expansion upon sustainable and local eating? Gather what is closest to you versus buying ingredients that come from thousands of miles away. [...]