October 20

Here's that Garden and Gun article on Animal, a Los Angeles restaurant that succeeds in cooking Southern, because the chefs don't really try to cook Southern. 

October 10

The new food issue of Garden & Gun is an embaressment of riches. There's a Vanessa Gregory profile of SFA filmmaker Joe York. And a Wright Thompson dispatch from the Memphis in May BBQ contest, wherein my son Jess talks of Jello shots. 

I have four pieces in the issue. One on the LA restuarant Animal, which I'll post soon. The other three are about Charlotte, NC. Can this banking metropolis lay claim to being a food city? Here I answer maybe. Here I isolate the good stuff. Here I profile three key Charlotteans. 

September 28

There are more Bosnians in St Louis than anywhere outside Bosnia. Of the 60k-pus who now live in St. Louis, a good number are great bakers. In this United Tastes dispatch for the NYT, I explore bread baking, assimimialtion, and a sausage called cevapi. BONUS: The bread recipe was developed by Blair. 

August/ September

Bern's Steakhouse, that Tamapa, Florida-based rococo palace of aged meat and marble statuary, is the subject of my latest Garden & Gun column. Get your Fork in the Road here.