Eat & Drink
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A love letter to tacos
Tacos are just about the most perfect form of food. I’m typically not one to make broad pronouncements, but truly, if I had a personal motto or a family crest, it might be something like, "For God, country, and tacos."
80-proof in the pudding
Dessert is ‘warm, gooey, sugary and boozy’ – just like New Orleans
Bring on the brew
The Greenville Craft Beer Festival brings the suds for the third year at this weekend’s festival featuring local, regional and national brewers, who will gather at Fluor Field for a day of tasting and discovering new favorites.
Cold Day, Hot Pot
Hot pot is a humble dish. It has no pretenses. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a hot pot. I’m at Mekong Restaurant on a blustery, gray fall day – it’s not quite cold enough to warrant a chili or stew, which incidentally means the perfect conditions for hot pot.
Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook
Fiction Addiction’s cookbook club decided that a New Year’s resolution to become cooking geniuses sounded like a great plan, so we have chosen Food52 Genius Recipes as our cookbook selection for the first quarter of 2016
SC Breakfast Club flying high after 74 years
Every two weeks, a hodgepodge of aviation enthusiasts and pilots fly in to a pre-chosen South Carolina airport to fraternize over an ordinary breakfast.Ordinary, however, is one thing this club…
No ordinary backyard BBQ
From trying a new recipe to learning a tricky technique, television cooking shows can certainly inspire. That’s exactly what happened for business owners Brad Cunningham and Jeff Bannister, with one…
They made the list
When it comes to wine lists, nine Greenville restaurants have award winners. Wine Spectator announced its 2011 Restaurant Wine List Award winners, honoring restaurants from around the globe whose wine…
It’s official
Slow Food Upstate’s Earth Market will receive official certification by the Slow Food International Foundation of Biodiversity at the organization’s July 21 market, making it the first program of its…
Oh so sweet
When Kristin Kuhlke Cobb was looking for a place to open her fourth bakery in South Carolina, a business consultant suggested she visit Greenville. Cobb saw lots of people walking.…
It’s bottoms up for breweries
What gets Tom Davis and the other craft beer brewers in South Carolina out of bed in the morning isn’t a pot of coffee. It isn’t the shrill throbbing of…
Denny’s profits slump
Spartanburg-based Denny's Corp. net income fell 42 percent in the second quarter, the company reported.
Downtown gears up for growth
After months of little construction downtown, there are signs that Greenville is pulling ahead of a tough economy. “Construction actually started last week,” said Leigh Cooper, spokeswoman for Sullivan Management,…