Dear Wendy, I’m writing this to you as a 52-year-old woman. I know – that’s old. You’re only 14, and being middle-aged is beyond your comprehension....
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Column Articles
Handshake
By Sean Dietrich A seated dinner. A conference center. I finish making a speech. I walk off stage and dodge a few airborne rotten vegetables on my...
Remembering journey in collecting recipes, food writing
By Ann Cipperly On a Sunday afternoon in the Opelika countryside, my mother would be in the kitchen frying chicken in an iron skillet while pots of...
Enterprise plans centennial honoring boll weevil for peanut crops
By Ann Cipperly This year is the 100th anniversary of the Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, which was erected to show appreciation to the...
Shh…I’m hunting for wabbits
By Robert Noles Well, we just finished one of the hottest months of the year. It was too hot for me to get out and check out some of my hunting...
Bar Food
By Sean Dietrich I am at a bar. It’s loud. There is live music. And cheeseburgers. I missed dinner tonight because I was making a speech at a dinner...
Catalog season – hide ’em from the children
By Hardy Jackson This is the catalog season. The days get shorter, the nights cooler, the leaves turn, the catalogs arrive. They seem to increase...
The Blind ‘Selfie’ Collector and Tiger Woods
By Greg Markley Fran Lebowitz, a witty writer and outspoken New Yorker, said in 2010 that her friend, a renowned art collector in Manhattan,...
The Local Table: Friends for soup
By Bradley Robertson I am not one to choose favorites, but in the genre of seasons, Fall is at the top. I love all the vibrant colors and all the...