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My Dirty Little Secret
by Sarah Christine Bolton
May 9, 2008
I am a very strong-willed protester of fried foods. I pull breading off chicken, refuse to eat fried okra and think chicken fried steak is almost sacrilegious. Living in the South, I realize that many people around me do…
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
by Margaret Cahoon
April 30, 2008
Lunch Lady had oral surgery a couple of weeks ago to remove some hanger-on baby teeth she’d had since she was, oh, less of a Lunch Lady and more of an elementary–school student being served by actual lunch ladies. You…
6 Tennis Fuel
by Sarah Christine Bolton
April 23, 2008
This past weekend, for the first time in what feels like months, the temperature outside actually exceeded 40 degrees. In fact, it was 80 degrees, sunny, and the painting-perfect baby-blue sky was filled with white fluffy clouds. Birds were…
[Lunch Lady] One-Offs
by Margaret Cahoon
Photo by Darren Schwindaman
April 9, 2008
“Sometimes we have to be judged on our one-offs,” wrote Nick Hornby—one of, say, five novelists writing since 1900 whom Lunch Lady reads regularly—in “How to Be Good.” His narrator doesn’t see herself…
[Food & Drink] Love a Duck
by Jesse Yancy
Photo by Melissa Webster
Those rascals in the Greater Belhaven “There Goes the Neighborhood” Association plan on holding their annual “White Trash Bash” as soon as it gets warm enough to wear a wife-beater. Before long, the middle stretch of Poplar Boulevard will fill with the odors of heart-hindering foods cooking over carbon footprints.
[Food & Drink] Butter Up
by Jesse Yancy
Photo by Christi Vivar
March 26, 2008
Any kitchen’s larder should include butter among its basic oils: Without butter, cakes lose their savor, eggs can’t find their flavor, and breads just get lost.
[Lunch Lady] Brand Spankin’ New Downtown
by Margaret Cahoon
Photo by Darren Schwindaman
March 19, 2008
In some cities, storefronts are full, and any time one business vacates, there is another one on its heels to take over. In other places, storefronts stay empty for years and fall into…
[Green Girl] Fewer Cow Pies, More French Fries
by Kelly Bryan Smith
Photo by Melissa Webster
March 19, 2008
One major solution to the problem of global warming is making small changes in our own homes. A multitude of things—cars, factories, power plants—heavily contribute to global-warming pollution. We’ve heard a lot about driving less, changing our light bulbs, recycling. Even our weekly grocery trips have come under scrutiny. We’ve talked about the importance of incorporating organic and locally grown foods into our diets. But the issue is bigger than that. A major contributor to global warming is … the cow.
Krewe of Broccoli
by JoAnne Prichard Morris
Photo by Sage Carter-Hooey
March 12, 2008
Can’t get enough of Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade? Continue the party at home, and have another Mal-athon on your dining room table. You need only to create a krewe of broccoli stalks marching on a street paved with split peas and red beans—and, presto, you’ve got a green parade. This year’s theme celebrates nutrition and health. (Stick the broccoli in candle holders or use pin frogs.)
One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four…
by Michele Baker
Photo by Melissa Webster
March 12, 2008
Mark McCrary, executive director of the Mississippi Center for Nonprofits and enthusiastic St. Paddy’s Day celebrant, grew up eating potatoes—the most Irish of vegetables. His mother no doubt used them because potatoes are…
[Food & Drink] The Lost Art Of Eating Breakfast
by Sarah Christine Bolton
Photo by Christi Vivar
February 27, 2008
When I was a child growing up in Montana, my family would take annual trips to California to visit my mom’s parents. My Nana and Pompa lived in a big house high above the San Francisco bay. I would wake up every morning to the smell of coffee wafting through the heater vents. As I staggered downstairs, I could hear Pompa watching “Kathy Lee and Regis Live!” in the other room. Nana would make me oatmeal with sweet chunks of peaches and bananas. Ah, breakfast, your beautiful beacon of sustenance and motivation.
[Lunch Lady] Local Flavor
by Margaret Cahoon
Photo by Darren Schwindaman
February 20, 2008
As you may know, to be a true Jackson Free Press foodie, you must require a few things of your restaurants: Located in Jackson? Check. Locally owned and operated? Of course. Local flavor?…
Cooking Under Pressure
by Jesse Yancy
February 13, 2008
Sooner or later you’re bound to hear someone say they can’t boil water, or even worse (and this is the voice of experience speaking) hear it said about you.
[Fly] Decadence and Chocolate
by Jackie Warren Tatum
February 6, 2008
On Valentine’s Day, forsake your inhibitions and romp with your lover beginning with a little chocolate. Taken to the extreme, it could conceivably lead to cuddling and even (dare I say it) participating in more strenuous lovers’ “exercise.” And though I am not recommending such dual endeavors, I am not necessarily discouraging them.
[Lunch Lady] Setting the Mood, With Food
by Margaret Cahoon
Photo by Darren Schwindaman
February 6, 2008
Lunch Lady is excusing herself from offering you any aphrodisiac advice this year, in part because she realizes that you can’t all agree with her on the powers of tweed jackets with elbow patches, cheap cologne and a week’s worth of facial hair, and in part because she has a replacement. For this special fly Valentine’s Day, Lunch Lady is taking a break and yielding to her French counterpart, La Demoiselle de Déjeuner, who might have a better idea of romance and increasing your (sexual) appetite.
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May 07, 2008
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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May 02, 2008
[Books] Polishing Southern Tarnish
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May 02, 2008
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May 02, 2008
We All Watch Oprah
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May 01, 2008
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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May 01, 2008
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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May 01, 2008
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
andi: I have really enjoyed your columns, Mar... I mean Lunch Lady! GOOD LUCK to you as you become Lady of…
May 01, 2008
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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Apr 30, 2008
[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
L.W.: We'll miss you, Lunch Lady!