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…