Simmer Down Podcast: ooh la la Meet Virginia
This is a very special week on Simmer Down! We had the opportunity to sit down to breakfast at B. Matthews restaurant in Savannah and catch up with Chef Virginia Willis and her mom…also Virginia. We talk everything from Chanel lipstick, Meme’s pound cake recipe, Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon to the “easy on the eyes” cattle rancher Will Harris! Meet Virginia Y’all!
Ginny’s Pink Bike
I remember meeting Ginny Branch’s cotton candy pink bicycle before I met her. I had chained my own retro bicycle to the same “Loading Zone Only” sign as hers. Ginny was a student at Savannah College of Art and Design and was applying for a part-time job at a lifestyle store I was struggling to help open. The Paris Market and Brocante is arguably the most eccentric, thoughtful hipster dream store in the United States.
Simmer Down: For the Love of Valentine’s Day
This week on Simmer Down, it is all about what your man can cook for YOU (even if he doesn’t cook) for a romantic Valentine’s Dinner! What a candy heart necklace leads to and big lesson learned on not listening to your love. Enjoy listening along while Libbie and Brenda share memories of Valentines day past what’s so great about London and Martinique!
How To Wet Cure Bacon
Salt, sugar, time and constant temperature are the four key things needed when wet curing bacon. There are many different schools on the brines salt to sugar ratios. I am of the school that your brine should be sweeter rather than saltier.
A Thanksgiving Primer
When I was ten, mom bought me a set of Christopher Columbus paper dolls from one of those newsprint Scholastic mailers. The punch-out dolls consisted of a dozen or so white men and a handful of natives, but I didn’t know what to do with them. This predated the PC police and Lies My Teacher Told Me, so I didn’t yet know that “discovery” is a euphemism for taking what isn’t rightfully yours. In other words, I didn’t have Columbus and his men fight with the natives; instead, they sat down together for the first Thanksgiving dinner.
