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A few years ago my wife and I went out grape picking at a local "U-Pick" farm. The farm offered a variety of u-pick options, including raspberries and a number of different apples along with the grapes. We enjoyed ourselves, filling pint after pint of raspberries, a couple basketfuls of apples...

Chicken Pot Pie is one of those great comfort foods I remember from my childhood. Unfortunately, they often came frozen, from a small blue box, you remember the ones. I can remember my Mom making a number of different "chicken topped with some kind of pastry" casseroles, but I don't ever...

It seems like nowadays there is a holiday for everyone and everything. Of these made up holidays, March 14th is one of my favorites - Pi Day; the day we celebrate the mathematical constant, Pi, by baking and eating pie. For those of you with no inclination towards math, Pi is the ratio between...

This past weekend I celebrated my 40th birthday. I wasn't nearly as traumatic as I thought it would be. Sure, I've come to the realization that I'm not as young as I used to be, but I also came to the realization that you are only as old as you feel. I certainly don't act and feel like I thought...

Christmas is just around the corner, It's my favorite holiday, and time, of the year. Not only is it Christmas, but my wife and I celebrate our anniversary right around that time (Dec. 30th) along with my parents and grandparents. So, as you can see the holiday is a very special time for me. I...

Have you ever watched Mind of a Chef? It's an amazing show featuring really passionate chefs talking about the philosophy behind their cooking and the ways in which they approach food in general. The most recent episodes that I've seen featured Sean Brock of Husk Restaurant in Charleston. He's...

Thanksgiving is the perfect time for soul food to shine, and one Southern chef has refined the traditional Sweet Potato Pie with another soulful seasonal favorite. Since Chef Teresa Thomas launched her restaurant called Southern Caviar in 2008, diners around Myrtle Beach, S.C., have been...

People look for signs of Spring in many places. To some the return of the Robins signals Spring, for others it's the flowering of Crocuses or Daffodils. Others get excited by the sight of geese heading back north and I can't deny I get a little tingle when I see these early signs of Spring...