June 2011
7 posts
Next month's Dairy Queen Connoisseur magazine...
A mini blizzard on the Minnehaha boardwalk? Sign. Me. Up.
A square meal
Oxord, Mississippi and my family go way back, man.
When my grandmother came to visit her cousin at Ole Miss, she would see William Faulkner, or Count Do Nothing as he was known back then, engaged in some intense people watching as he leaned against the drugstore entryway. Later, when James Meredith was starting his first day of class at Ole Miss, she took my mother to the courthouse on the...
A rendezvous at Rendezvous
Last Saturday, somewhere between Monroeville, Alabama and Oxford, Mississippi at around 4PM, my mama and I realized that Charlie Vergos’ Rendezvous in Memphis would be closed on Sunday, which was when we planned to drive to Memphis after spending the day in Oxford.
Never have we had such a big first world problem.
The only way to fix it was to completely rearrange our travel plans and...
A Harper Lee BLT
I ordered this BLT and strawberry milkshake at Harper Lee’s house.
Well, kinda.
Somewhere in between Savannah, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama on our journey North to Minneapolis while I was studying funny city names in my mama’s atlas like Burnt Corn, Half Chance and Vinegar Bend, I saw that Monroeville wasn’t far enough away from our course toward Oxford, Mississippi to not...
Summer in produce form
While it has been summer for at least a month here in Savannah if you are going by temperatures, hem lines and anti-perspirant use, in Minnesota there are still tiny hills of snow in back parking lots, which is precisely the reason why Minnesota is the place to celebrate the mystical wonders of summer.
People really appreciate summer up there. Like really flippin’ appreciate it. Unless...
Food-related reason No. 47 I can't wait for this...
There is a 76% chance that I will be feasting upon Rendezvous ribs in Memphis this weekend during my road trip from Savannah to Minneapolis with my mama.
For those of you who don’t have mothers who will use about any excuse there is to stop in Memphis for BBQ, the Rendezvous is a basement in a downtown alley and also the gold-standard for charcoal broiled ribs in tomato-based sauce. Do...
A love letter to Taco Bell
I haven’t eaten at Taco Bell in roughly five months. For those of you who know me well enough to know that a statement like that is serious business, well… you know this is serious business.
Say what you will about Taco Bell — their ground beef isn’t fit for dog food or isn’t beef at all, but Taco Bell has never disappointed me mostly because I understand that...
