Mushrooms at work
It’s been raining here in Mississippi, and judging by the scene outside my office this morning, Mississippi mushrooms like rain. Overnight, a lovely…
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ONE NIGHT ONLY! My pop-up restaurant
On the evening of Friday, June 23, downtown McComb will buzz with the energy of Chez Clay, my one-night pop-up restaurant. Topisaw General Store…
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Culinary confession
I have a confession. It’s a food confession. There shouldn’t be a need to apologize for tastes in food. There are white meat…
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Another stuffed chicken
In these pages three years ago I wrote about some chickens I’d stuffed. My thinking riffed vaguely on turducken. As a reminder for…
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New Year’s Eve
Crowds of people are not my idea of a good time. I like my space and I don’t like noise. Crowds of drunk…
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Dear Mr. Dukakis
Dear Mr. Dukakis, I read the article about you in the Boston Globe a few days ago. At first I thought just that…
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Medianoche
There are people who go gaga for sandwiches. You don’t have to look very far to find folks who live for grilled cheese…
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Regarding melted cheese
When asked what my last meal would be if I knew I would die soon, I generally name lamb, raspberries and pears. The…
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Dinner with Daniel Boulud
Some years ago — not too many years but two or three eyeglass prescriptions ago — I walked into a restaurant in New…
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Fried chicken
When I mentioned to Calvin yesterday that I intended to do something for tonight’s dinner with some Cornish hens I knew were in…
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