By Dean Wright Thanksgiving is a time to bring family together, reconnect with loved ones and indulge in a little bit of turkey. The Lewis’ Turkey Farms and its owners, Beverly Lewis and Margie Kiefer, make a practice of this year round. The sisters have spent their lives growing up around the farm, learning the […]
By Amy Eddings A filet mignon, medium rare, is topped with herb butter. Chef Leslie O’Neal puts the finishing touch, a sprig of thyme, on a lunch plate. Chef Leslie O’Neal prepares a meal in his Lima home. For years, Chef Leslie O’Neal expressed his culinary passion privately, cooking for family and friends. The […]
By Amy Eddings When I first heard of a produce auction, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. I couldn’t picture a group of people standing around and bidding on a bushel of peaches or two heads of cauliflower. It challenged my perception of what it meant to go grocery shopping. And yet that’s exactly […]
By Adrienne McGee Sterrett Specific directions to the Boughans aren’t really necessary. Just be on the lookout for the old brick schoolhouse they converted into their home in 1995. Once inside, it all comes into focus. Of course Tammy Boughan’s kitchen would have touches a baker would love — a vintage cake carrier, a rack […]
By Portia Williams From left, Brian Collins, brewmaster apprentice, and Adam Chaney, warehouse manager of The Portsmouth Brewing Company, fill the kegs with CO2 after they have been cleaned by Chaney. The Portsmouth Brewing Company in downtown Portsmouth, Ohio, has been serving the community since 1996. Tori Salisbury, bartender and day server at The […]
By Andrea Chaffin The pot getting ready to go into its last broth bath. Cook the seafood last. I’ve always wanted to make a Low Country boil. With seafood, sausage, potatoes and corn, it’s an all-in-one meal best served by dumping on a newspaper-lined table. I ate too much and have no regrets. I recently […]
By Tristen Phipps Pasta and chicken go together like peanut butter and jelly. I’ve lived on pasta and chicken through my college years, whether it was chicken-flavored Ramen or something more legitimate like chicken Alfredo, I was all over it. After three years of the pasta, chicken, pizza diet, my taste buds decided they were […]
By Amy Eddings Richard Schnipke has the United States Army to thank for introducing him to barbecue, and his wife, Paulette, for getting him in the restaurant business. Ottawa, too, owes a debt of gratitude to the Army and to Paulette, because they were the impetus for the Red Pig Inn Pork House and Pub, […]
By Amy Eddings Chef Bob Arnold of Lima Memorial Hospital shows off a vegetable pomodoro while working in the cafeteria. Standing in the huge kitchen at Lima Memorial Health System’s hospital, in the landlocked city of Lima, Chef Bob Arnold is a long way from Nantucket, where he grew up. He’s also a long […]
One-of-a-kind cuisine offered on city’s streets By Tristen Phipps Jessica Burkhart has worked in Ali Baba’s food trailer since 2007. Burrowed in the winding hills and bountiful bricks of Athens, lies a trade decades old. For some, it’s a regular stop; for others, it’s a local food adventure; but for Marla Rutter, Nisar Shaikh and […]