Tag: Southern food
Restaurant Natalie Bianca brings “New Southern” cooking with Mexican influences to Cascade Heights
Named after a cherished friend of the owner, Natalie Bianca joins a cluster of culinary gems nestled in Cascade Heights, near the Cascade Springs Nature Preserve and the Adams Park neighborhood.
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.
With Long Snake, Joshua Fryer embraces a long-simmering passion for cooking
Joshua Fryer's restaurant Long Snake has electrified the city’s pop-up scene with an assortment of highly original dishes inspired by Fryer’s Southern heritage; his passion for procuring local ingredients; and his work alongside some of the city’s most accomplished young chefs.
Newly renovated, Mary Mac’s Tea Room reopens after a two-month hiatus
Quintessential Southern restaurant Mary Mac’s Tea Room is back open after part of its roof collapsed during a rainstorm in March.
Author Von Diaz recalls a kitchen where Georgia first felt like home
Puerto Rican–born author Von Diaz draws connections between her native island and the American South in her recent book Coconuts and Collards.
Rosé Bistro & Champagne Bar at Atlantic Station plans to offer Parisian and Southern specialties
When Paris native Sam Djomo Jr. visited Atlantic Station a few years ago, he was impressed with the pedestrian-friendly vibe. When the former Land of a Thousand Hills space there became available, he snagged it. Come April, Djomo will open Rosé Bistro & Champagne Bar, serving both Parisian and Southern specialties.
Find great Southern seafood, highbrow and low, at these Atlanta restaurants
From the lowbrow (fish fry) to the highbrow (crab legs and lobster), here are some of our favorite Southern seafood dishes you can find around Atlanta.
10 years of Miller Union: How the restaurant challenged the way we think about Southern food
Miller Union chef Steven Satterfield and general manager Neal McCarthy have helped reimagine what it means to be a "Southern restaurant" since opening the doors to their Westside restaurant in 2009. Now, they're celebrating with a party at Westside Warehouse.
Michael W. Twitty: “I want Southern food to be the basis of a new discussion on shared Southern identity.”
Inspired in part by Roots author Alex Haley, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes a hard look at his own ancestry—both black and white—in his new book, The Cooking Gene.
In his most ambitious book yet, John T. Edge explores the question, “What is Southern food?”
The Potlikker Papers is a food history of the modern South, “the South that awakes from slumber in 1955 when the cooks and maids in Montgomery step off the buses and begin walking to work, rejecting Jim Crow,” says Edge.
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