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Quote of the Week 4/15/13

April 15, 2013

[Update 6:00pm: Thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Boston. Such senseless violence and bloodshed. So glad my Naomi is safe and unscathed. Hoping you and yours are safe as well]

So this weekend was jam-packed for me (but that’s just the way I like it). Saturday morning I had the pleasure of attending my first ever food truck rodeo, and we really went all out. I think there were 9 trucks or so there and I made a point to try something from every one. I think my favorite was Hello, My Name Is BBQ, because they had this amazing Goat Cheese Cheddar Mac and Cheese. It was divine. My mom really liked the chocolate glazed donuts from Diggity Doughnuts. My dad really liked Charleston Festival Foods‘ bratwurst and loaded baked potato fries. And we all really liked the Creole Food Truck‘s gator bites. It was a great experience overall, and I’d love to go to another food truck rodeo in the future!

This week’s quote comes from Greenville, SC native, Tyler Florence and is about how awesome food trucks are. Enjoy!

“I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there’s lots of barriers to success. There’s a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It’s very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.”
–Tyler Florence

Tyler Florence and that baby are making the exact same face. That’s kind of creepy.

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Quote of the Week 4/8/13

April 8, 2013

Just finishing up my stay in Washington DC. It’s been an awesome week, and I don’t want to leave. I think I walked more in the past 3 days than I have in my entire life. This week’s quote is for Lauren, who showed me a wonderful time and also managed to make one little bag of peanuts last for 3 days.

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”
–Channing Pollock

Turns out, there are two famous guys named Channing Pollock. Hopefully I picked the right one…

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Quote of the Week 4/1/13

April 1, 2013

Happy April! I was going to do some kind of April Fool’s Joke today, but I just couldn’t think of anything funny. So instead I’ll get right to the quote:

“Eggs Benedict is genius. It’s eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.”
— Wylie Dufresne

Starburns?! Is that you?!

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Quote of the Week 3/26/13

March 26, 2013

Sorry for being a day late! I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday and spent most of the day in bed. This week’s quote comes from one of my favorite people, Mrs. Paula Deen, and I think it’s surprisingly inspirational coming from the Queen of Butter (who apparently doesn’t eat as much butter now that she has diabetes, but she still loves her french fries…my kind of lady).

“You don’t want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don’t want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.”
–Paula Deen

Look at mah biscuits, Y’ALLLLL!

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Quote of the Week 3/18/13

March 18, 2013

Whew. What a whirlwind the past couple of weeks have been. They’ve definitely taken a toll on me physically. This week’s quote comes from film writer Sheilah Graham Westbrook, and I think it pretty accurately sums up my life for the past 3 weeks.

“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.”
–Sheilah Graham

More like Sheilah GLAM Westbrook. Ba dum cha!

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Quote of the Week 3/11/13

March 11, 2013

Happy Monday everyone! This week’s quote come from French chef, author, and restaurateur Marcel Boulestin. I picked it in honor of Laura and our conversation last night whilst cooking tater tot casserole. Enjoy!

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” –
—Marcel Boulestin

I just wish I liked French food more.

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Quote of the Week 3/4/13

March 4, 2013

I spent a wonderful weekend in Atlanta with my friends pretending I wasn’t on a diet and eating basically whatever I want. This week, my awesome cousin Naomi is staying with me for her spring break. The non-awesome part of this is that she’s a vegetarian (more accurately, she’s like a vegan who eats dairy products, since she doesn’t eat eggs or fish), which means I had to reevaluate what restaurants to bring her to in Charleston. This week’s quote is in her honor.

“In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.”
— Jay Rayner

I’m thinking he missed his calling. He looks way more like a magician than a journalist.

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Quote of the Week 2/25/13

February 25, 2013

This week’s quote is inspired by the delicious Barbecue I ate in Orangeburg this weekend. It comes from BBQ enthusiast Vince Staten who wrote a nifty guide about the best BBQ joints and recipes in the US. I haven’t read it yet, but I want to!

“The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.”
–Vince Staten

Am I the only one who thinks he kind of looks like the Keebler Elf?

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Quote of the Week 2/18/13

February 18, 2013

This week’s quote comes from a french lawyer who is known as being one of the first restaurant critics and food reviewers. He’s known for being “scathing and witty” in his reviews and even published a “Food Lover’s Almanac” that was pretty popular until a bunch of people got mad and accused him of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable reviews, forcing him to fake his own death and live out the rest of his days in a chateau outside of Paris. People apparently took food reviews very seriously back then.

“Life is so brief that we should not glance either too far backwards or forwards…therefore study how to fix our happiness in our glass and in our plate.”
– Grimod de la Reynière

Dude, look at that face. I can’t stop laughing.

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Quote of the Week 2/11/13

February 11, 2013

So how ’bout that Walking Dead premiere last night, amiright? So good. We had a fun little party at LDub’s house complete with 3 types of mac and cheese, cream cheese chicken crescent rolls, chorizo dip, buffalo chicken dip, salsa, and raspberry jam-filled “Walker Bait” mini chocolate cakes courtesy of Zach and Sara. It was delicious and awesome and I’ll never be able to watch Walking Dead the same way again. Saturday, I also attended a mini-mac off, held by my friend Sheena. She won (but I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that it was her party and her friends. Just saying #soreloser). It was a really fun weekend overall (check out my album below for all the pics).

This week’s quote comes from Alice May Brock (aka Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant), and I think it’s actually a very informative guide to spices and ethnic food.

“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.”
–Alice May Brock