I am not a fan of factory farm produced chicken or even free range, but this cooking method produces an incredibly good chicken. My brother-in-law Hugh and his wife Anastasia gave us a “special” chicken cooker. I have no idea what it is called and can’t even find it on the Internet. My best guess [...]
If you are from a big city and used to a virtually unlimited selection of “exotic” foods, you may not appreciate this post. But ,if you are a small town guy like me (Augusta, GA), you may. To get hard to find foodstuffs, I usually relay on periodic trips to the Dekalb Farmers Market in [...]
This is my grandmother’s applesauce recipe as given to me by my mother. My grandmother made the best applesauce I have ever had and both my mom and me have tried to duplicate it over the years, usually without much success. When I was a kid, I would eat it hot, as soon as it [...]
The latest addition to my blogroll is The Culinary Cellar. The primary focus of this great blog is cookbooks, but that is not all. Debbie Vanni has a huge collection. I am a huge book lover and have a pretty good cookbook collection, so I can appreciate her passion. The really cool thing about this [...]
I was honored to have been interviewed for the foodie site FriendsEat.com. Doing the interview was fun and FriendsEat.com is a site I enjoy reading regularly. Check out the interview at http://blog.friendseat.com/interview-with-food-blogger-virgil-huston/
What is wrong with Americans? Are most Americans ignorant, just don’t care, are afraid or do they really think what they eat is perfectly good? Or is it all of the above? I am going to explore some of my thoughts on some of these things over the next few weeks. First, I admit I [...]
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