Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Belinda Hulin, food journalist from Louisiana, has a new book, Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes, that catalogues recipes and parts of lifestyles lost when hurricanes Katrina and Rita ripped through her childhood area around Lafayette, La. Recipes from more than 40 years of life in Cajun country – crawfish gumbo, cracklin’ cornbread, [...]

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My colleague John Linn at Broward New Times wrote online about the $5 for 5 deviled eggs served at Gary Rack’s new Downtown Eatery + Tavern in Boca Raton. That’s a comfort food-with-a-twist spot. (Very fun, whimsical and vivid decor, solid drinks and some good dishes in Mizner Park.) This GRIT (Girls Raised in the [...]

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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 [...]

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Nellie and B.R. Harrelson, cuttin’ a rug Lemon meringue pie = Father’s Day My dad had a sweet tooth – a miserable thing for my mom, who didn’t really like to bake. That is, it required a recipe, and extensive time in the kitchen – two things she had no use for, really. (But could she [...]

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My Yankee food buddy, The Meatist, has just written up his First Encounter of the Southernmost Kind: a story on Chicken Fried Steak. I love it when somebody discovers a food I’ve been eating all my life – and “gets” it. Or sorta. He gives a recipe for this staple of Southern kitchens that’s almost right. It will [...]

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