Mar 27, 2020
Somewhere South debuts tonight on PBS, the second television show from North Carolina chef Vivian Howard. If you don’t know her, you should; she’s a force in American culinary culture, through her placemaking Kinston, NC restaurant Chef and the Farmer, and it’s growing number of restaurant siblings, to her first...
Mar 20, 2020
You come to the Southern Fork to hear stories of others in restaurants, bars, and the culinary industry, but today, it’s just me. And I’m at the beginning of the season, I just feel like I did this a few episodes ago. But Food writing, I feel, is at its best when it’s service journalism, and today, I am led to be...
Mar 13, 2020
Food can make you feel at home, no matter where you are, and when I walked into Hatchet Hall, located in Los Angeles, I immediately had a sense that this was my kind of place. The best Grandma parlor decor with a hefty dose of taxidermy, hearth cooking, good whiskey, food cooked from a sense of history, and you know,...
Mar 6, 2020
If you’ve been out and about in Charleston,SC, then most likely you’re familiar with Home Team BBQ. But since it’s a place with multiple locations (including outside the state), those spots are almost always busy, and they probably have your game on the TV and your favorite beer or spirit in the glass, it’s...