Savannah, Ga; September 2, 2016. The wind and rain are raging outside, mostly in gusts, as Tropical Storm Hermine passes through the area. I’m staying at home, wishing I had picked up some salad greens yesterday on my way home from Charleston. The salad rocket (Eruca sativa) has long since burned up in the garden, but the wild arugula, a species of the Diplotaxis genus, has naturalized and continues to produce, even though I have not let...

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August 17, 2016. Savannah, Georgia. It was the last week of February 2007. I got an email from the Charleston Wine & Food Festival informing me that they were going to honor me with their first “Culinary Legend” award given to an individual. At the time, I was being courted to open a lowcountry restaurant in New York, and had booked travel to the Big Apple that weekend, when the festival was to be held. Though I felt odd...

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August 16, 2016; Savannah, Georgia It’s been such a hot summer, the hottest on record nearly everywhere. I haven’t been cooking as much as I usually do, though I somehow manage to post a culinary image on Instagram or Facebook nearly every day. A video I posted on Instagram of me salting shrimp the way my mother used to on our sailboat has been viewed 2000 times in the past couple of days. It has no sound, but I described the simple...

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I cannot tell you how excited I am to be involved in the Third Annual Blood on the River event.  My post from last fall was one of my most read and praised of my nearly 10 years of blogging. Do come join us! Blood on the River Lowcountry Boucherie October 23, 2016 World renowned Chef John Folse will lead 70 chefs in the Third Annual BLOOD ON THE RIVER boucherie in the fabled South Carolina Lowcountry. Produced by Tank Jackson of Holy...

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Savannah, GA; July 13, 2016: Steve Boss is the host of the excellent GREAT TASTE culinary radio program. The station, KRUU-LP 100.1 FM, is a solar-powered, open source, independent, non-commercial, listener-supported, grassroots community low power radio station, broadcasting 24 hours a day and 7 days a week since launching on September 30th, 2006 in Fairfield, Iowa. 100% of the programs at KRUU are produced by up to 100 volunteer hosts who...

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Santa Fe, New Mexico; July 2, 2016  We’ve been in Santa Fe for a week and the weather has been beautiful and the company, sublime. I made Chicken Country Captain for 12 one night and tonight we’re having Donna’s Vidalia Onion Tarte Tatin with fresh green peas and rack of lamb. Peas are just coming in here! I’ve recently become friends with Ronnie Dixon, who is the Mayor of Vidalia, and he sent us a big box of onions to...

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