with Pamela Lamp
In this section of the blog, readers will find interviews with people in the food and drink business, recipes, cookbook recommendations, and more.
As a young girl, Angela Roberts tagged along with her “fussy grandmother” on outings to the farmer’s market and the local Italian food shop. “My grandmother was ahead of her time, cooking with clean, healthy foods full of flavor,” says Angela. That “fussy grandmother” who picked over tomatoes and scrutinized cheeses and breads would be…
In their final days of school, most college seniors celebrate with friends, prepare to start jobs, or plan where their adult lives will take them. But, two weeks shy of her Auburn University graduation, Susan Stachler received a shocking diagnosis. Susan is named after her mother, Laura’s, sister. Four years before Susan was born, Aunt…
Several years ago, Anne Elizabeth McIntosh and I chatted on a sunny Florida beach. Ours was the polite conversation people have when neighboring umbrellas and beach chairs are close to one another. What book are you reading? Where are you from? We ran into each other again at the airport as we boarded the same flight back…
“You can’t spend a weekend with someone seriously ill and grasp what they’re going through,” says Brett Swayn. “I never understood the depths of despair homeless men face….until I was homeless myself.” From Perth, Australia, Brett moved to Texas to pursue a promising music career. For years, he played gigs in Dallas and Austin. Along…
A few years ago, I had lunch with an author who was in Nashville to promote her new cookbook. I wondered, after a late night flight, how she’d organized and prepared the dishes she’d cooked on an early morning television program. “Oh no, the food stylists do all that,” the author said. And I wanted…