2025 Young Men Olympian Jr Benevolent Association Second Line
Young Men Olympian Jr Benevolent Association was founded in 1884.
2025 Young Men Olympian Jr Benevolent Association Second Line
Chester A. Arthur was in the White House while William J. Behan was in the mayor’s office in downtown New Orleans.
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Spaghetti With Sweet Onion Brisket Ragu [photo courtesy Ryan Adams]
Such was the case on many trips to Agata’s kitchen in Alabaster, Alabama.
There is an enormous Italian diaspora in central Alabama.
For decades, immigrants from the Boot have traveled to Dixie to settle into the fertile blacklands, and begin their new lives among the country folk of Chilton, Shelby and Jefferson counties.
It’s a little known fact that the Birmingham area hosts some of the finest Italian restaurants in the whole United States.
Places where they still bring a hot loaf of bread to table the moment you’re seated, Chianti bottles line the walls, and the tablecloths?
Even after almost 20 years in professional kitchens I’m still picking up tricks and techniques from some of my friends who are skilled home cooks.
Such is the case as I sit to dine at my buddy Ron’s house in verdant Pflugerville Texas.
He’s a retired insurance adjuster and an enthusiastic home cook who can bang out a top notch smoked pork shoulder and bottles his own righteously fiery Tex Mex table salsa with loads of jalapenos.
We’re having a fish fry and he’s anxious to show me his rice pilaf recipe and technique.
American Association of Meat Processors, American Cured Meat Championships
A total of 76 meat companies submitted 873 products across 30 different classes at the American Cured Meat Championships [est. 1949]
I’ve been in the cured and smoked meat game since the late ’80s. I am a charcutier but in no way on these gentlemen’s level. Give me another 20 years of practice.
This shootout is the Superbowl if you’re in the meat scene or meat adjacent.
Strick’s Specialty Meats in nearby Hattiesburg took home two Grand Championships. Otherwise the old south that we love was blanked out.
Here are the winners:
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Funky Hot Vietnamese Collard Greens With Fried Green Onions
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