Monthly Archives: February 2010

One Down (and 3.6 to go)

My cooking friend, Mark, emailed me a few weeks ago with a list of questions, reading recommendations, and an update on the North Carolina snowfall. He was practically snowed-in, with 8 inches in one day, and spent his time making…

Icing on the Cupcake

My (pound cake) gramma’s house, the house where my dad chased rattlesnakes, cured tobacco in the barn throughout his summers, and where he to-this-day parks his 1984 Nissan pick-up truck (the same pick-up truck in which I learned to drive…