I’ve probably traveled more this summer than any summer of the last three or four years. I had a number of commitments that kept me near Savannah the last couple of years, but those are gone now and it gave me, with all due respect to Southwest Airlines, the freedom to move about the country. […]
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For the last several years, Savannah’s rock star chocolatier has expanded the reach of his decadent empire. What started as a tiny space in Savannah’s Starland District has evolved into Adam Turoni’s chocolates being carried at some of the region’s finest hotels and specialty shops. So what does a young man do for an encore? One
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Three months and counting until the 3rd annual Savannah Food and Wine Festival rolls out all over town. This week we got our first look at the event’s official poster. The poster was designed by former Savannah College of Art and Design student Nuntanut Sathityatiwat, who incidentally also created the poster for the first Food
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Way back when I got to know a gentleman here in Savannah who enjoyed roasting coffee beans, Philip Brown jokingly billed himself as a “drug dealer.” After all, there is no telling what someone will do in the morning before they find that coffee buzz equilibrium. Count me among those, by the way. Well, when
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This new Mexican restaurant, just opened in March on Wilmington Island, is worth checking out. The five Ramirez brothers who work there, with José, being the nominal owner as well as manager and bartender, have taken a cue from their two other brothers, who own a Jalapeños in Statesboro, on putting together the menu. While
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I’ve met all kinds of people in my time as a food writer and more times than not, you can put them into a handful of categories. There’s the guy that cracked his 401K to retire and open a restaurant because he likes to cook. There’s the guy that shows up to work on time
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CO is a recent addition to Savannah’s Asian fusion restaurant scene offering banh mi (Vietnamese sandwich), pho, ramen, dumplings, sushi and signature cocktails. It is open seven days a week for lunch, dinner and cocktails and is located at 10 Whitaker Street, Savannah with sister restaurants in Charleston and Myrtle Beach. As we entered CO,
If you didn’t know who he was, frankly, you wouldn’t mistake him for any sort of bigger than life figure. He walks around with a book bag of sorts. Not a whole lot in there except a notebook and a Macbook. He is an incredibly accomplished chef, but doesn’t do much cooking anymore. He’s a
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It really shouldn’t have come as any surprise to me, once upon a time, when I started asking chefs what their most popular dishes were at any number of area restaurants. “Seafood” or “the fish” or “oysters” were typically the most common answers I got when I started getting to know the names and faces
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So, imagine you get hired for a job. You move across the country, you get settled in, you are excited to hire some staff to support your new venture and then someone slams on the brakes. You sit. You wait. You are given random tasks to deal with before you actually start your job. And
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