I’ll never be able to claim the idea as original. It was Krista Tippett in her podcast who spoke with author Ross Gay, and their conversation prompted me to begin. …
Wanda Key Turner | Corn Muffins
She was my catalog of can do. Craning my neck as a child I watched her diminutive body, topped with an elegant french twist, commandeer the pipe organ at the …
Bucket List for the Ages | Tarragon Oil
A while ago I met a friend for coffee and a man typing on his laptop sitting nearby asked if I was who I am, and yes, I said, I …
Lovey Armstrong | Meringue
Lovey. She put the whirl in my girl. When I think of her, I am back in the dark green clubhouse that was underneath the magnolia supplanting her entire front …
Page Turner | Quiche with a Side of Tomato Aspic
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/1391099 Ding. A new year. A new list of completed reads (click the above link for the books I read in 2019). Is there a better resolution for the yellow …
Know. It. All. | Finger Sandwiches
Trips through the grocery store are now perfunctory. I switched to CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) as a source of food some 18 years ago, so when I go to the …
Freda | Spinach Salad with a Cheese Cookie
Every time I slip into my three-inch heels, I blow a kiss to the memory of my Great Aunt Alfreda Blanks Gates McGee Franklin. I’ll trust that everyone has the …
Ethel | West Indies Crab Salad
She was 61 and I was 24 when we met at the see and be seen location of Lefleurs Restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi. Dalton and I were writing the first …
Choose Your Adventure | Another Chicken Salad
My granddaughter Pepper said, “Guys. Can you help me catch the lighting bugs? Can you hear them? Gal?” And no I cannot actually hear them, but no doubt they are …
Sing It Sista | Green Tea with Honey and Lemon
Here’s a new one. Before heading to Nashville (I live some 45 minutes south in Columbia), always, always I swoop around the Maury County Courthouse, park and run into Muletown …