I’d simply like to get the word around that if you haven’t read Roy Blount Jr.'s food writing, you owe it to yourself to do so. I just picked up his “Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South” at the...

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

“When a man rears back and eats, he wants okra.”

I’ve never had the prix fixe menu, but if I remember the price of the entrees correctly, this could be a good deal. Plus, I’ve found with prix fixe that you often get some of the best menu items. I say go for it. I...

I have been hitting a local Roy Rogers lately and must have forgotten that they make very good fast food. My parents would take us to either RR or Burger Chef when I was a child (McDonald’s was forbidden) but I stopped...

You might try Roy Rogers. I believe that Carl’s Jr., Hardees, and Roy Rogers are all the same thing in different parts of the country. (I know that Hardees is here in the south).

in Frederick Maryland persevered. They spent several futile years trying to purchase the rights for Roy Rogers from Imasco (the one time owner of Hardee’s which for some unknown reason was purchased by Carl’s Jr.)....

Song to Pie by Roy Blount, Jr. Pie. Oh my. Nothing tastes sweet, Wet, salty and dry All at once so well as pie. Apple and pumpkin and mince and black bottom, I’ll come to your place every day if you

Sweet Willie said: While I usually like my oysters raw, last week I had the fried... Reminds me of Roy Blount Jr’s poem about oysters. Here’s an excerpt: I like to eat an uncooked oyster. Nothing’s slicker,...

When food reporting goes wrong, among other bloopers assembled by Regret the Error.

"When Krispy Kremes are hot, they are to other doughnuts what angels are to people." -Roy Blount Jr.

I like her joie de vivre, too. She was a good sport. I just wi had been a show that included Roy Blount, Jr. and Paula Poundstone. Those episodes seem to have the best repartee.

You’ll find no better—or funnier—essay on eating, on food writing, and, in fact, on writing in general than Roy Blount Jr.'s “The Way Folks Were Meant to Eat.” Find it in his recent book “Long...

Starting with an article by Roy Blount, Jr., in “Cornbread Nation,” I have been compiling a food playlist on my iPod. Here’s where we are thus far: A Chicken Ain’t Nothin' But a Bird by Louis Jordan & His...

Please see my posting on this board from yesterday, "Roy Blount Jr. Is a Food Writing God."