How to Take a Solo Road Trip When You are 80

This is not my usual kind of posting. Many friends , though, were surprised (horrified?) that at 80 years of age I drove nearly 2000 miles from Lexington, Kentucky to…

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Why so many foodie institutions fail: or thoughts on the Oxford Symposium and the Southern Foodways Alliance

Every time I poke about on the shelves and in the file drawers of my study, I run across the remains of failed “foodie” institutions, using the foodie here as…

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Restaurants and White Supremacy

Reflecting on recent events, Tunde Wey, raised in Lagos, Nigeria and now working as a chef and writer in New Orleans, has a piece out that takes as its focus…

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