Archive for September, 2009
Eat – Heart and Soul
James Bazzelle doesn’t look like your typical restaurant owner. He wears an oversized red Polo shirt with a black “G” patch piped in white across the left breast and a pair of baggy dark blue jeans. Even though he later affirms that he’s not a huge University of Georgia fan, he still subtly pays...
September 30th, 2009 | September 2009 | Read More
Food – Ice Cream Heaven
I found my niche. I have become an ice cream freezer, perhaps one of only a handful of people in the country who knows the ins and outs of freezing non-homogenized ice cream. I pour some liquid in a machine and make sure there is a cardboard box to collect the final product at the other end—sounds...
September 30th, 2009 | September 2009 | Read More
Travel: Cartagena Colombia
When I told my well seasoned travel friends I was going to Colombia for a month, they politely declined my invitation to meet there. “Oh, don’t think we’re ready for Colombia—not too safe yet. I’ll wait till the war is really over.” Another said, “Just seems kinda dicey there, still.”
I’m...
September 30th, 2009 | August 2009 | Read More
A World Away, Around the Corner
Dark green, with large and bumpy spikes, four watermelon-sized durian fruits sit in a cardboard box near the store’s entrance.
Even in the city of banking, NASCAR, and Southern charm, there are stores that carry a fruit whose smell is so obnoxious it’s forbidden in hotels and on public transportation...
September 18th, 2009 | September 2009 | Read More
Elements of an Uptown Burger Experience
Leave it to the ancient Greeks to have predicted what’s necessary to create the perfect burger experience in 21st century North Carolina. To be fair, when the toga-types twigged to the four basic elements—earth, wind, water and fire—they weren’t considering that their philosophical musings...
September 17th, 2009 | September 2009 | Read More
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