J. Keck

Catfish, Hush Puppies, & Yuzu

One night when I was a teenager, visiting extended family in the Arkansas delta, I was told to prepare myself for “some mighty good eatin’.” I supposed that we were going to someone’s home or a restaurant. Instead, on this moonless night, the car crossed over a bridge above the St. Francis River, the outlines […]

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Memphis Style Barbecue

Appreciating a Saturday lunch at Charles Vergo’s Rendezvous Restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee — the best of the best of Memphis barbecue, I was, indeed, satisfied! Not being one to hold back my gustatory pleasure of looks, gestures, and auditory punctuations to this meal, I may have embarrassed my family a bit. But having preceded the […]

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Food Memories of the South

This morning with family over breakfast, I was reminiscing about the importance of FOOD in a Southern Family, and how Grandma, who lived with us, was a fantastic Southern cook (these days she’d have been called quite possibly a house-bound chef). Though to be sure, by the time I came along much of the family […]

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