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The Southern Fork

May 27, 2022

Stories abound everywhere in the culinary South, even tucked into business parks in Pelham, AL. That’s where Alex Sherman and Jeff Daniels, who, along with the other members of the team of Non-Fiction Coffee, are changing the coffee scene for central Alabama. They view the supply chain from a bottom-up...


May 20, 2022

If you’re doing your first visit to Red Orchids China Bistro in Charleston, SC correctly, you’ll walk in a guest and leave as a friend. Owners Kelly and Tony Chu, two-first generation Chinese Americans, fell in love sharing a single dream of opening a restaurant.  They opened Red Orchids in 2003, taking on family...


May 13, 2022

Chris Coleman was never far from Southern food. He spent summers on his grandparents farm in Mississippi, and was 14 when he started his first industry job at a local fish camp in a suburb of Charlotte, NC, working his way up through the ranks from busser to kitchen expediter. While a culinary student in Central...


May 6, 2022

Forty-two miles south of Charleston, SC and home to a little more than 2,000 people, Edisto Island is a place where everyone knew everyone else when Emily Meggett was growing up. Today she calls it a “little slice of heaven,” and says that when the side door is open, people know that there is food in her kitchen....