Tag: cooking
The Cook’s Warehouse celebrates 30 years of helping Atlantans make dinner
The Cook’s Warehouse began as a way for owner Mary Moore to bring the joy of home cooking to more people. She launched it in 1995 on Amsterdam Avenue after successful stints at some of Atlanta’s most well-respected restaurants such as Indigo Coastal Grill and Partners Morningside Cafe. It was an interesting time to launch such a store; The Food Network launched in 1993, supercharging non-professional interest in cooking, and Atlanta was blowing up as a culinary city.
A host of heavy-hitting cookbooks with Atlanta ties for tasteful gift-giving
’Tis the season for gathering, cooking, and gifting a memorable book to that special someone who seems most at home in the kitchen. We’ve got suggestions for must-have new titles and a revamp of a winning classic. All have an Atlanta connection and a Southern slant, and their stories and recipes will appeal to any hungry reader.
Learn how to cook with bourbon from Kentucky celebrity chef Edward Lee
If you think bourbon is best served in a glass, think again: Celebrity Chef Edward Lee will soon tour the South to showcase how to cook with Kentucky’s brown water.
In a Southern kitchen, rice and beans bind generations and geographies
Cooking stew peas or any iteration of beans and rice was never meant to be dogma. Rather, it is a humble offering connected to nourishment and nostalgia wrapped in the comfort of eating what we are used to eating and will continue to eat.
What the Church Ladies are cooking up
Dispatches from Atlanta and beyond. Also in this month's edition: Watching the World Cup in Norcross and trans dancers find a home on Cheshire Bridge.
Chef Spotlight: Joe Truex of Pursell Farms in Sylacauga, Alabama
Known by many for Repast, his celebrated (and sorely missed) Atlanta restaurant, Joe Truex is now executive chef at Pursell Farms, a 3,200-acre resort in Sylacauga, Alabama, featuring an inn, cottages, an 18-hole golf course, and three restaurants.
Firefighters cook dinner for each other every night—but as a rookie in an Atlanta firehouse, I saw the limits of that intimacy
For generations, firefighters have cooked for one another nightly, building camaraderie over shared meals. But I also saw the limits of the connections forged over the firehouse table.
Are Chick-fil-A’s new meal kits any good? An experienced cook and an inexperienced one tried them out.
When Chick-fil-A announced in July that it would begin testing new take-home meal kits in its Atlanta markets, the internet went wild. But do the meals from those kits live up to the hype? We decided to find out.
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Why kitchens are the beating heart of a home
If home is where the heart is, the core of that beating heart must be the kitchen. I feel like I was born in one.