• Talking about food while on the road (and cooking too)

    On my long three weeks journey, after a few days in spent Oxford, MS at the Southern Foodways Alliance Conference, I crossed the Mississippi River at Helena over to W. Helena in Arkansas. At Pine Bluff High School I talked…

  • The best tastes of the Fall

    Today I’m thinking about butternut squash soup; creamy, thick, deep yellow, yum!   Several versions of this soup that I’ve been served are too sweet for my taste. I’m usually most responsive to savory.  My recipe contains roasted red pepper,…

  • Leni’s heading back north

    Here I am in Vicksburg, Mississippi, bookin’ out ahead of Hurricane Ida!  Heading up Highway 61 just like in the Dylan song . . . . .  “God told Abraham Kill me a son Abe says Man you must be…

  • Finally some sun as I drive across the South

    All the rain has played hell on the crops here in the south.  This picture is of a sodden cotton field unable to be harvested.    I also passed soybean fields still with rows full of wet, and in some…

  • On the road

    After I left Bristol it was rain, rain, rain. I put my Virginia Roots Music CD in the player and sang my way down the road.  Spent the night in Jackson, TN; about 100 miles west of Nashville and today…

  • The continuing conversation about the ‘food desert’

    Further thoughts re the generous and thoughtful responses to my ‘food desert’ post. I do very much understand that individuals have little/no control over headers, headlines, or photos used in media. As a performer for many years I became used…