We’ve all cracked the jokes about retailers getting a jump on the holidays. You see Christmas trees, light displays and inflatables going up at the warehouse stores around Labor Day and the flood of social media snark begins. It’s too early! It’s too hot outside to be thinking about the holidays! Enough already! We’ve all […]
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Fans of the television show Top Chef already know who he is. Kevin Gillespe quickly became a fan favorite on that show. To the others, who perhaps don’t dabble in reality TV, Kevin Gillespe is a just a Southern boy trying to do some great things with Southern ingredients. He’s owned several restaurants over the
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I love ice cream. It’s without question my guilty pleasure. I see a new ice cream, I try it. Like anything else, there is some out there I like more than others. My favorite? Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Easy. Before that came along, I was a Cookies and Cream guy. Or Butter Pecan. (Leopold’s Ice
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There are a number of episodes that we’ve discussed revisiting in this, our fourth season of Eat It and Like It. So many things have changed in three years and we feel like people would appreciate a “where are they now” type of look back. The obvious no brainer for us was our episode on
I’ve said many, many, many times that I am not a chef. I have never had any formal training as a chef. Never taken any courses in a culinary program. My formal training comes down to one class I took as a birthday present at the now defunct Disney Institute. We made a yule log.
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“Elevated White Trash” was thrown around a bit the other day. I mean really, is there such a thing? I had to laugh when that was the phrase I was offered when I asked the guys behind Savannah’s newest Bar/Restaurant what they could describe their menu as. I ask that question all of the time.
I have never seen a ghost or anything I thought might be a ghost. Has my mind played tricks on me at several points over the years? Especially at night? When no one is around? When you think you might have seen something but didn’t? To that mix, I can add that I have had
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Eat It and Like It’s “Italian” episode was actually formulated three years ago as a “Noodles” episode. The original plan was to feature different places in the Savannah area that did different things, essentially, with pasta. Italian food, Thai food, Chinese food immediately come to mind. It was back when our budget was non-existent. For
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If you’ve been around the area for a while then you remember Matt Roher when he was Owner/Executive Chef at Cha Bella from 2007-2011. He had quite a following there. The restaurant was at the height of its popularity and Matt was developing a “Farm Box” concept with fresh produce delivered to your door once
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A good bit of scuttlebutt over Brunch last week via Social Medialand. Twitterverse was buzzing, Facebook was uhhhh ‘Facing”? I don’t know. But there were a great many people taking sides on the age old tradition of Brunch. Yes, Brunch. It seems a writer of an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times has had
