Tag: Virginia Willis
5 Atlanta events you won’t want to miss: November 28-December 4
Watch the annual Children's Christmas Parade in Midtown, tour historic homes in Virginia-Highland, and get in the holiday spirit at Oakland Cemetery.
How an Atlantan photographer, Angie Mosier, wants to reshape our perceptions of Southern cuisine
New York City–based chef Marcus Samuelsson will release a cookbook called A Moving Feast: Recipes and Stories of Soul Food’s Journey North. Through the lens of food, it will share accounts of the Great Migration. Nearly every one of the more than 100 images in the book will have been captured by photographer Angie Mosier, a lifelong Atlantan who is preternaturally talented, excessively humble, and unmistakably white.
The New South: Three cookbooks challenge Southern stereotypes
Taqueria del Sol owner Eddie Hernandez, legendary Southern chef Virginia Willis, and Richards' Southern Fried owner Todd Richards all have new cookbooks debuting this spring that feature some excellent Southern mash-ups such as collard green ramen.
Cook like an American: Two new books address how we eat
Two new cookbooks out this month, America the Great Cookbook: The Food We Make for the People We Love (Weldon Owen) and America: The Cookbook (Phaidon), address how Americans—and Georgians—eat.
Commentary: Why have there been so few female lead chefs in Atlanta?
Ever since I arrived in Atlanta nine months ago, I've been wondering: Where are the female chefs? Long have professional kitchens employed women as pastry chefs, but there are still relatively few female headliners, here and elsewhere.
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.
Community Farmers Markets releases first seasonal cookbooks
Atlanta’s largest collective of farmers markets has launched a new series of seasonal cookbooks. In May, Community Farmers Markets released the first edition, Spring.
Salmon Patties with Lemon-Caper Sauce
The salmon croquette or patty that shows up in Southern meat-and-three’s is typically fried in lots of oil and served with remoulade or another rich sauce. Atlanta chef Virginia Willis employs some clever tricks...
What did Atlanta chefs cook at home during Snowpocalypse?
Much like our intrepid political leaders, I spent the better half of Tuesday refusing to accept the reports of meteorologists that a snowstorm was coming to cripple the city. Even when images of overturned vehicles popped up on Facebook, I remained optimistic that I was making my 7 p.m. dinner plans. Obviously, they didn’t happen.
Virginia Willis to publish health-conscious, Southern-inspired cookbook in 2015
I recently met chef and cookbook author Virginia Willis in photographer/stylist Angie Mosier's kitchen studio, hidden off a side street in Castleberry Hill. The two were working on Willis' next cookbook Lighten Up, Ya’ll, slated to debut in March 2015.