Introducing Sweet Loblolly Love
The ice cream sandwich is one of the great nostalgic guilty pleasures of childhood. Remember those long ice cream bars with thin, black sandwich cookies and vanilla ice cream? It was, for me, the...
View ArticleFalling in love with The Pantry Crest (restaurant review)
I want to tell you a story. A story of how I finally came to love one of the most cherished restaurants in Little Rock. Because, if I’m being completely honest, I’ve never been in love with The Pantry....
View ArticleThe best food I ate in May 2015
Every month, I feature 10 new dishes in this column. Once it’s been featured, I don’t put it in this spot again, meaning that this column marks the celebration of 150 excellent Arkansas dishes so far....
View ArticleScenes from the 2015 Diamond Chef finals
Tuesday night saw the final round of the 8th Annual Diamond Chef competition to benefit Pulaski Technical College. The competition pitted challenger Justin Patterson of The Southern Gourmasian against...
View ArticleThe best food I ate in June 2015
We’re at the halfway point of 2015, and I’m starting to wonder how the next half of the year could possibly compete with what I’ve already tasted in the first half. The dishes coming out of Little Rock...
View ArticleThe best food I ate in July 2015
I keep this monthly list restricted to Arkansas dishes, for the simple reason that hardly anybody outside the state reads this blog. If I didn’t, my top dish of July would be the Single Burger at...
View ArticleThe best food I ate in August 2015
It’s a cliché, but it’s true: this month is by far the toughest time I’ve had putting this monthly list together. Some of the dishes I left off this month were just wonderful moments that I didn’t have...
View ArticleThe best food I ate in September 2015
So this is the first thing I’ve written for the Little Rock Foodcast blog since I wrote August’s “best food” list. Writing for Sync has been an amazing, engrossing experience; one that I never would...
View ArticleThe best food I ate in October 2015
By now you’ve heard the news that Sync Weekly has closed down after more than a dozen years of running as a free weekly publication. I was fortunate enough to serve as Sync’s food writer for its final...
View ArticleLR foodie buys for Small Business Saturday
Today is Small Business Saturday, an great time to get away from the big boxes and bigger online retailers and shop local. Central Arkansas is loaded with local businesses making great products,and...
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