Local diner finds much love in area, expands By Liz Young Craig J. Orosz photo Justin Musil, co-owner of LuLu’s Diner, shows off the restaurant’s fruit pancakes, left, and its eggs benedict plates. Craig J. Orosz photo Waitress Lori Hinkle serves up Mickey Mouse pancakes to Aston Wright, 6, and waffles to his mother, […]
By Amy Eddings Alisa McPheron Expect the unexpected when you walk into Lima’s Fat Cat Diner. Like fake plastic spiders and cockroaches scattered along the white table tops. (It was part of the restaurant’s cheeky Halloween decor). Like chicken fingers tucked inside a flour tortilla wrap, or sandwiches of cream cheese and bacon on […]
Courtesy photo Chef Eric Villegas is set to prepare dishes on stage during the Taste of Home Cooking School and Expo Dec. 8. Whether you’re looking to be simply entertained or need a gameplan for some serious holiday cooking, plan to attend the Taste of Home Cooking School and Expo. The event is Dec. 8 […]
By Dean Shipley [email protected] Dean Shipley | The Madison Press Angie Roberts Harris, owner of Phat Daddy’s Pizza in London, displays a poster of the names, businesses and organizations which donated to help her and Phat Daddy’s staff prepare 234 dinners for the Thanksgiving holiday. Some of the donors chose to remain anonymous. About […]
By Darla Cabe Knouff Coleman With the holidays quickly approaching, country folks are getting excited about special family times to share and traditional family foods. Nothing beats the memories that good, old-fashioned holiday meals invoke as we gather around the table to offer thanks for the harvest and all our blessings. And nothing is […]
The official holiday season is upon us and Thanksgiving is ready to kick off. With crowded homes, time spent traveling and shorter days, Thanksgiving can also be a time where personal health takes a back seat to our other responsibilities. It is an easy time for many of us to fall into unhealthy habits, especially […]
Beveraly Drapalik’s mom, Gloria Bius, in her Stone Mountain, Ga., kitchen some time in the 1980s. Laura Kasserman’s parents, Glen and Joyce Fleming, in their wedding photo circa 1947. Sharon Hughes and her grandson, Colby. Sarah Allen The Times-Gazette Reporter and Salt Magazine Writer My family got this recipe from a family friend a couple […]
WILMINGTON — She hears the numbers rising. She already knows two men are prepared to pay $400 because they told her that information before the auction. The auctioneer begins and someone yells, “Start that pie at $200.” She hears $400; she breathes a sigh of joy. Then she hears $425. She thinks, “ I hear […]
Naysayers say ‘aye’ to this traditional holiday treat redux By Patricia Beech SEAMAN — Johnny Carson once famously said there’s only one fruitcake in the whole world, and everyone just keeps passing it around. Carson’s witty aphorism, notwithstanding, fruitcake’s unsavory reputation as a dense, dry, crumbly, pungent presentation is only one side of the […]
Everyone wins at chili cook-off By Andrea Chaffin London City Schools Superintendent Dr. Lou Kramer enjoys a good chili-belly laugh. Also serving as judges were Marvin Homan, president of the London City Schools Board of Education, Annie Hamilton and Andrea Chaffin, food editor of Salt magazine. Judges had to choose a winner from five […]