Jan Norris: Food and Florida

On my way across North Carolina on a searing hot July day, I stopped off to visit my good friend and grill columnist, Debbie Moose, in Raleigh.
She asked us to lunch and we debated on either barbecue, or New Southern cooking. I wasn’t up for barbecue, so we ended up at 18 Seaboard, a red [...]

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Fig preserves and fig cake from Ocracoke, NC – where figs grow by the sea.

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I’m off on assignments for the next two weeks around the Southeast U.S., and Grand Cayman Island. A few reports coming to you sporadically as my wi-fi comes and goes.
Clark’s Inn, Santee, SC
For the third time, we stopped at Clark’s Inn in Santee, S.C. to eat on the road. I think I’ll let the breakfast [...]

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ORLANDO – I’m up here taking a class that I desperately hope will improve my web site. It’s a week long and for bunches of reasons, have been unable to catch up with friends for dinner. Last night I took the easy way out and stopped by Uno’s on I-Drive to pick up a small [...]

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It’s been raining cats and dogs — and alligators down here these past few weeks. And this being Florida, it’s never halfway. All or nothing.
So my food friends in Jacksonville are taking the water taxi to dinner these days.
There’s a unique restaurant up there in a burg named Mandarin on the Julington Creek  called Clark’s Fish [...]

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