Charleston’s Great Fried Chicken Sandwich Debate
Boxcar Betty’s Fried Chicken Sandwiches vs. Chick-fil-A Initially, it may not seem fair to draw parallels between seven month-old newcomer Boxcar Betty’s and beloved southern fried chicken sandwich and...
View ArticleHome for the Holidays
Oyster and Parsnip Bisque Recipe and Cookbook Giveaway It’s not an original concept, staying home for the holidays, but for myriad circumstances involving work and family related travel, surgery and...
View Article“Holly”-Day Foodie Shopping List Helper
A Few of My Favorite Things It’s hard to believe Christmas is already less than two weeks away and that holiday shopping season is well underway in its typical mid-December fervor. A friend of mine...
View ArticleCreamy Potato and Brussels Sprouts Holiday Gratin
Cooking at Christmas Cooking is something I enjoy doing all year round. To me it’s a peaceful, meditative process that always brings me right into the moment of creating something delicious and...
View ArticleThe Year of Dining Casually
2014 – Charleston’s Year of Low Cost Deliciousness Most of last year Charleston was showered with a small storm of low cost, casual eateries many of them sprouting up along Upper King Street, and to a...
View ArticleWhen a House Becomes a Home
I’ve lived a lot of places. Boston, New York, Chicago, Wyoming, Paris, Southern France, Minneapolis, to name a few. But, I’ve never lived anywhere as long as I’ve lived in Charleston (fifteen years)...
View ArticleNew Covers for The French Cook Series Cookbooks
Fresh Cookbook Faces Happily, publisher Gibbs Smith, has decided to re-vamp the covers on all of the books in the French Cook series. The signature bright colors will remain under fresh new covers...
View ArticleSunday, Savory Sunday (and Sweet, Too!)
Indaco Adds Sunday Brunch to Tasty “Dixie-talian” Menu The burgeoning bunch of downtown Charleston restaurants serving brunch, especially on smokin’ hot Upper King Street, just got one restaurant...
View ArticleThe Season of Root Vegetables in More Ways than One
Rutabaga Gratin Recipe and Simmergreat Product Endorsement/Discount Always something of a rebel, I grew up loving foods most people don’t like or at least think they don’t like just because it seems...
View ArticleBasking Basquaise
Reflections and a Recipe: Feisty Chicken Drumstick Piperade Some years ago, I was blessed enough not only to own a small home in a tiny village in southwestern France, I was doubly blessed to have the...
View ArticleYankee Tradition Goes Southern with Sweet Potato and Grits Twist
I looked at the calendar yesterday and realized that Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday, is a little over a week away. October flew this year, with travel to visit my father who was ill (but thankfully...
View ArticleChristmas Guacamole – Shiny, Bright and Healthfully Wrapped
The holidays are moving at warp speed. I hope we all will take time to sit back and enjoy the ride and the reason. Cooking is a big part of my Christmas joy, and this recipe from my new cookbook...
View ArticleMashed, Finally – with Recipe Preview from Holly Herrick’s Latest Cookbook
The Birth of Cookbook #8 My publisher Gibbs Smith surprised me with a phone call late last September and described their vision for a cookbook featuring entirely mashed foods, a sophisticated and...
View ArticleTann Mann Dog and Chutney Cat: A Love Story
Prologue I wrote this a few weeks ago in the wake of the passing of my pet loves. At the surface, it has little to do with food or cooking, but in many ways it does. Cooking, for me, is a way of...
View ArticleLabor Day Cheddar Two-Summer -Squash Mash
Recipe and Cookbook Giveaway Here it is already. Time to tuck away the white shorts and Keds, pull out the grill, and celebrate the symbolic final hoopla of summer – Labor Day. When I was a girl living...
View ArticleAn Especially Grateful Thanksgiving
The older you get, the more you realize how important it is to be grateful for all that life, God and the universe have given you. When I was a kid (though always grateful), I think I took for granted...
View ArticleLucky Start for New Year’s Day
As we all look towards 2017, just hours away, I want to send my best wishes to all of my readers and the world for a healthy, happy, joyful, peaceful and prosperous New Year. Towards that end, I’m...
View ArticleSuper Father’s Day Sundaes
If it’s possible to still be a Daddy’s girl at 52, then I’m as guilty as the six year-old that wears him like a badge of honor on my heart, then as I do now. He enforced strict discipline and never...
View ArticleIntroducing The New Charleston Chef’s Table
Voila! She’s Finally Here and A Cookbook Give Away It’s been a long time since I’ve visited. It’s been a very busy and wonderful year. In addition to a new cookbook (number nine), I have a now sixteen...
View ArticleMy Maternal Pork Chop Legacy
Pork Chops, Applesauce, and my Mother and Mother-in-Law with Recipes and Such In addition to being very near and dear to my heart, my mother (Margaret) and mother-in-law (Dori), share three things in...
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