Tag: Features
Mobile Bay’s Top Recipes of 2014
Snacks + Drinks
MISS VELMA CROOM’S CHEESE STRAWS
Charles and Greg Parmenter love to serve these tried-and-true cheese straws from the late, lovely Velma Croom. Recipe featured in "Carnival Cuisine, "...
Mobile Bay’s Top 14 Photos of 2014
ABOVE The sweet sounds of Roger Fritz’s handcrafted axes have attracted quite the celebrity following, from George Harrison to Randy Jackson. Published in "Guitar Hero,...
Ode to Joy
ABOVE LEFT For Buck Baker, it’s great fun to stroll atop his dad Stephen’s shoulders. “Nothing makes me happier than spending time with my family,...
Natural Selections: Myocastor coypus
More than a century ago, U.S. ranchers began to import nutria from South America in order to harvest their soft, brown...
Celtics Unite
Although our founding fathers were French, the Bay area boasts a rich Celtic culture dating back hundreds of years. While it wasn’t always...
Nacho Nirvana
1. BIGGER AND BETTER Chip in with a crowd for OK Bicycle Shop’s smoked duck appetizer, left. This mountain of crispy tortillas comes slathered...
Passport to Flavor
Mobile is much more diverse than one might expect to find in the Deep South. People from all over the world move here to...
Restaurant Review: Bake My Day
There are apparently an ever-increasing number of addicts in our area – people with an uncontrollable urge to indulge in the cookies from Bake...
Ark of India
“To leave India, ” novelist Salman Rushdie wrote, “is to feel replete: Full of ideas, arguments, images, sounds, smells,...
Oysters Abound
1. GOING GREEN Who says fried and fresh can’t go together? Wintzell’s offers fried oysters over mixed greens, purple onions and grape...