How to Make Authentic (and Awesome) Grits

By Paul Thomas Zenki

Grits can be terrific or terrible, depending on how you fix ’em …  If you’ve seen the Oscar-winning, and hilarious, 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny, you know the plot ends up turning on the question of how long it takes grits to cook. (That’s not a spoiler, by the way.) If you’re not from the […]

Good Gravy!  —  13 Classic American Gravies & How to Serve Them

By Paul Thomas Zenki

The USA has a gravy for just about every meal … I was having a conversation with some Brits recently and they dropped a real bomb on me. Apparently, in the UK there’s only kind of gravy. As an American and a Southerner, this was just heartbreaking. It’s like finding out there’s a nation where […]