High noon on Thursday, I began the Northward drive from Miami. Passing power lines, cows, and little else, I fell asleep that night listening to crickets by the lake behind my parents’ house in Atlanta. The next morning, my beautiful sister Kassandra woke early to breakfeast with me the Flying Biscuit—where the grits really are [...]

As we corner in on a long weekend, the rains have increased to their usual frequency for this time of year, bringing out spiders, and reviving plants I watched wilting earlier in the week. Here’s to a few days framed with sun, as we turn toward restorative summer—

It’s been a week, and I’ve missed writing here, so this is a longer post below. I hope that all of you are having wonderful days— Last Wednesday, my friend Dianna showed me the community garden in South Beach. With retro signs (community gardens are quietly beginning to be called Victory Gardens again across the [...]

Yesterday began in a freezer. Well, really a Bikram yoga studio of 105 degrees, but after that a freezer full of farm eggs and tropical fruit at Bee Heaven Farms in South Florida, where I picked up my order: Another red custard apple for the road—to eat in a few days, as these become very [...]

I was very happy to learn a few weeks ago that Dennis Scholl was joining Knight Foundation’s permanent staff as the Miami program director, not least because he cares very much about the food and wine communities and is a wine importer (half of the Betts & Scholl powerhouse that I first read about in [...]