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Stacey Wallace Articles

Making the Grade: On the Road to Grady, Alabama

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE As I’ve often mentioned in this column, I love to eat, but I dislike cooking intensely. Therefore, family and friends who love to cook and are talented at the culinary arts hold a special place in my heart. One such person, who meets the above...
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Making the Grade: The Flying Biscuit Café

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE Many changes have come about in education in the last few decades. One class that has fallen by the wayside is home economics, or "home ec." When Mike and I taught at Long Cane Middle School in LaGrange, Georgia, home ec was an exploratory or...
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Making the Grade: Sweet Gee’s Restaurant & Catering

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE If you are reading this column, I hope that you and your family had a very Merry Christmas. This was the first Christmas that I made my sweet Mama’s dressing without her supervision, so I was a little nervous, reading her handwritten...
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Making the Grade: Bow & Arrow

Although I’m a woman of many faults, I’d have to say that two of my worst are my lack of punctuality and my rotten sense of direction. My lack of punctuality is possibly genetic because Barbara Patton (not the former mayor of Opelika), my sweet Mama, suffered from the...
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Making the Grade: Veggies To Go

Making the Grade: Veggies To Go

Nov 24, 2021

By Stacey Patton Wallace Thanksgiving 1963 to Thanksgiving 1984 were the best ones of my life. Why? Because from the ages of almost one to almost...

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Making the Grade: Twice Baked

Making the Grade: Twice Baked

Nov 17, 2021

By Stacey Patton Wallace As I’ve mentioned several times before in this column, I absolutely LOVE dining in downtown Opelika. I’m so glad that...

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Making the Grade: The Mason Jar

Making the Grade: The Mason Jar

Nov 3, 2021

By Stacey Patton Wallace Recently, Mike and I met our friends Jack, William and Thomas for supper at the Mason Jar at 1036 S. College St. in Auburn....

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