Scroll to the bottom to enter the second giveaway of the week... we're on a roll baby.I've been bewitched by Friday Night Lights. The show and the real life fantasy of mine. It is partly because I want to be as cool as Tim Riggins when I grow up, minus the jail bait, but also…
Today, for all the wild women in the world, (or all the men who know wild women and like to give them presents), I'm giving away some rockin' clothes from SHE Safari.As you know, I don't know how to dress myself. Walking into my closet every morning is a source of stress. When I was…
I spent Labor Day weekend cruising the cotton fields of the Arkansas Delta. By the end of it, there were more doves than any one person could consume.This lead me to invent all kinds of recipes to keep it interesting, as well as churn out some classic recipes from the Italians in the region –…
But first you have to shoot it. Just after sunrise.Preferably over a cotton field.Near sunflowers. Dead ones. Doves love dead sunflowers. I do too. I also love dead dove. It tastes like liver, the pudding of the gods.You can read about dead sunflowers in the last chapter of Food Heroes. I love them. More than…
One of the things I've liked most about this book tour, are the in between moments. The things I've done on the way to the book events.The night before the delta dove hunt is one of my favorite nights of the year. It is full of food, and laughter, and guitar blues, and whiskey, and…
There's something special about celebrating a book where it all began.I've been to all of these cities in the past few weeks, but New York is my true home, where this personal odyssey all began. And so it was nice to be there, to be home, and celebrate with my old friends and family and…
This morning I went to visit my great-aunt's freshman year roommate. But more than that, her lifelong best friend. Her name is Mary Ellen. My great-aunt Gray was a very special and unique character, and if you've read the first few sentences of Food Heroes you'll see what I mean.Mary Ellen and Aunt Gray spent…
Tonight I drove home to Tulipwood in a thunderstorm. It rained so hard it was as if the earth just needed to let it all out. We all need to let it out sometimes. There was lightening too. Big thunderbolts flashing over the George Washington Bridge.Normally I dislike traffic, but tonight something was different. My…
I'm not sure where to begin, but to put it quite simply, this is the story of "Camp Chaos."It's been a fun, whirlwind of a book tour so far, lots of plane rides and new faces, and public speaking, and sweaty palms, and good parties. And lots of book signing.I don't have writers cramp yet.…