Wood | Smoke | Pig from Southern Foodways on Vimeo. The Oxford-based Southern Foodways Alliance held its first-ever Film Storytelling Boot Camp in conjunction with the Southern Documentary...
Considering wings are chickens’ arms, the situation is becoming Oxford’s version of an arms race. Coop Deville, HotWangs.com, Buffalo Wild Wings. Oh, and Wing Fanatic (R.I.P.) As a...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: On my last nerve: Whatever the circumstance or activity or person involved, it’s REALLY REALLY becoming aggravating to the...
Welcome to a three-part series in which HottyToddy.com interviews some of Oxford’s busiest bartenders. HottyToddy.com contributor Steve Vassallo had the tough job of visiting these great...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Hell and high water (interchangeable with Lord willing and the creek don’t rise): Usually expressed as “Come Hell and...
As was confirmed in late April, Gus’s Famous Fried Chicken will be opening a restaurant in Oxford, next to Soulshine Pizza on South Lamar. As a...
Wally Joe, chef-owner of the contemporary Memphis restaurant, Acre, began cooking haute cuisine in the unlikeliest of places: the Mississippi Delta. For years he and his...
You can’t miss B.B. King’s influence here. His name is on the $16 million Smithsonian quality B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center. His image is...
Mother’s Day always reminds me of trips down to my grandmother’s in Mississippi and time at Harmony Baptist Church. I was always sure I could hear...
We begin our yearlong exploration of the contemporary welcome table in Jackson, Mississippi, as the capital city celebrates the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer and marks...