Hot Off the Skillet

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What I’m Eating Now: Matt McClure

January 31, 2013 | By Paula Disbrowe | | Comments (0)
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The current buzz in Northwest Arkansas? The Hive, the much-anticipated restaurant tucked into the 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville opened this week (the hotel will follow in February). We pulled chef Matt McClure off the line for a few minutes to find out what’s for dinner in Bentonville–and why he’s so excited to be back cooking in his home state. [...]

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Win Tickets to The Loveless Cafe’s Dinner at the James Beard House

January 30, 2013 | By Stephanie Granada | | Comments (6)
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Nashville-based The Loveless Cafe is spreading its gospel to New York in the form of a dinner hosted at the James Beard House with a menu full of down-home favorites on Valentine’s Day.

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In Baltimore, A Ravens-Inspired Super Bowl

January 29, 2013 | By Donna Florio | | Comments (2)
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At Baltimore’s Kennedy-Krieger Institute, the special-ed students who run the school’s Café James are showing their team colors on the menu. When they learned the Ravens would be playing in the Super Bowl–an event they’d long been waiting for–they eagerly dreamed up a purple rain of recipe ideas to serve on Thursday and Friday.

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What I’m Eating Now: E.J. Hodgkinson

January 24, 2013 | By Paula Disbrowe | | Comments (1)
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When Atlanta star Ford Fry (the chef and owner of No. 246 and The Optimist and Oyster Bar at The Optimist restaurants), asked E.J. Hodgkinson to step into the role of executive chef at JCT. Kitchen & Bar, the popular Southern farmstead-style restaurant that opened last year, the young cook didn’t think twice. 

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Fried Chicken Goes Hollywood

January 22, 2013 | By Donna Florio | | Comments (0)
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Now that the Oscar nominees have been announced, and the ceremony is little more than a month away, the really serious deliberations begin: What should you serve at your party? This year we’re giving dainty little bites a pass, and handing the statuette to over-the-top Southern fare served by Atlantan-turned-Beverly Hills-resident, Alex Hitz .

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What I’m Eating Now: Trevor Higgins

January 17, 2013 | By Paula Disbrowe | | Comments (1)
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For the frequent traveler, hotel fare–as in dining options in a corporate hotel–typically suggest forgettable club sandwiches and muffins speckled with splotches of purple masquerading as blueberries. In other words, “fresh” and “nourishing” aren’t the adjectives that typically spring to mind. But Roost, a new restaurant that opens today in Greenville, SC (one of our Tastiest Towns in the South), [...]

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Forage South: On the Hunt for Unique Southern Cuisine

January 15, 2013 | By Jessica Stringer | | Comments (7)