Browsing: Food & Dining

Let’s shake things up a bit, again, and talk about Italian-style pasta and red sauce this week. Please note, I said style, meaning sorta, kinda like the Italian way. This is not a traditional Italian recipe, because if you want to make a traditional Italian recipe, you have to be in Italy.

Let’s do something a bit different this week. Instead of talking about a specific restaurant or even a category, like po-boys, as dear as that subject is to me, let’s talk quality and technique, perhaps one of the most important subjects in the culinary world.

Orchid Indian Restaurant is one of my favorite places, and a great example of the point I was trying to make. I have been visiting Mike and Nike there for years.

Jackie Seavey, executive sous chef at Island View Casino Resort was declared champion of the Seventh annual World Food Championship. Seavey competed on May 17, 18 and 19 in The World Food Championship’s Final Table in New Orleans.

I’ve had a lot of good things to say about the food scene in Jackson County Home over the last few months, but the new Our Mississippi Home now celebrates the three lower counties, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, and pays a little attention to George County and Hattiesburg as well. That’s a wide net, my friend, but I have been traveling the back roads of Mississippi as a food and travel writer for 10 years and nothing excites me more than more interesting places to visit.

Although many cultures influenced the Southern food tradition, the heart of this cuisine is what has become known as soul food or just country cooking.

Pop-up suppers have been popular for quite a while (having a restaurant like experience in a non-typical restaurant environment) and seem to be happening more and more often.

Have you ever struggled to make fluffy, white rice like they do on TV?  Have you tried steaming it in a pot and burned it? There are a few other fancy recipes out there that take forever and produce marginal results, so what’s a poor cook to do?

Do any of these names ring a bell: True Wings, Twisted Magnolia, Mac Daddy’s Creole Kitchen, Chef in a Box, California Taco’s, Chow Me Down, Gourmet Grilled Cheese, or Charro’s Hot Tamales? They should if you are a foodie of any merit! They are all part of the food truck invasion that has hit Jackson County in the past year or so.

It’s summertime hot and who wants to stand over a hot stove on a day like this, right? Even outside,…

There is at least one significant event that occurs in the summertime that rouses me from my languor and that is the arrival of the summer’s first tomatoes

I am a burger nut. If I go to a fine dining restaurant and they have a good-looking burger on the menu, that’s where I am going.

It is one of the blessings of living on the Coast, having a great verity of fresh seafood, at reasonable prices, available most of the year.

The food scene in Jackson County isn’t all po-boys and blue-plate specials.

Its pretty easy to see how gas station food has evolved over the years, from offering junk food, coffee and maybe a biscuit for breakfast, but today’s foodies and folks on-the-go demand more.

Gulf Coast food culture is a very interesting fusion of traditional Southern foodways, and Creole and Cajun influences that migrated…