I had a panic attack on the first flight. "I should have packed my cake decorating stand," I thought. I ran down the list again,...

Life has a wicked sense of humor. When we try to make plans, life makes others. Just as we think we've figured out the new plan, lif...

This week last year, I was in Portland, Oregon for the IACP conference. We stayed at the Ace Hotel there which has a Stumptown Coffee R...

I make Hummingbird Cake once a year. I'd never heard of it until I was asked to make it for a colleague's birthday about a yea...

Oh grits, where do I start with you? There are so many questions I've been wanting to ask. Are you breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Are yo...

No, I am not!  But the adaptation of a Buckeye recipe to pretzel-stuffed-chocolate- covered-peanut-butter-balls could only have come f...

The subtitle of this post should be "Or how I accidentally got drunk on a Sunday afternoon".

Atlanta has a chain of breakfast diners that got it right. Key locations, good coffee, counters, quick waitresses, and even quicker line c...

Inevitably, you will have brown bananas. Ugly, spotty, squishy bananas. You are not even particularly fond of bananas and yet, here there ...

Anytime I see quotations around any part of a recipe title I roll my eyes. I don't want to be misguided and quotations are a pretty go...

I am a fan of Fridays (hello, weekend!), of chocolate, of beer, of rom-coms and snuggling. I also love puppies, especially squishy ones ea...

I was prepared to present you with the biscuits at the top left hand side, there. I wasn't really proud of them.  They were the most t...

I do not like raisins. Ok, I kind of like them if they are covered in chocolate or sometimes if they are golden. My sister despises them s...

I stopped to buy amarretto for a cake I am making for Saturday. Something about the label caught my eye. What can I say - I liked the labe...

I don't like Valentine's Day. I'd much rather know I'm loved any day of the year than one day that everyone else is supposed...

  Last weekend warm weather teased Atlanta with the promise of Southern spring. Then temperatures dropped into the thirties and it rained mo...

  I ordered a Whiskey Sour the first night Brian took me to Top Flor . I remember feeling like it was a confident but safe cocktail order. O...

I admit that I haven't been the best poster this week. I've been working on getting some things into the Fork and Swoon shop along...

I sat for too long  staring at the photo above trying to best define what pimento cheese is. Plainly, it is pimento peppers that have been c...

  Appearing to have evolved from the Alexander in 1950s or early 1960s, the White Russian has no great origin story. The drink, of course, i...