to Heritage Trail Winery...it’s just a few exits north of the casino. After reading JaneRI’s recommendation, we went last week and loved it. See both our reviews here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/567711 Wherever...

tastes, given a choice between the two, New Orleans would win hands down. I believe the choices, plain food to fancy, are greater in New Orleans. From Southern fried chicken to gumbo, a muffaletta sandwich to boudin, calas (sweet...

Having a home in Newfane I spend a lot of time in southern Vermont. I agree about Vermont Shepherd cheeses. As you enter the driveway, there’s a little shack that has a small refrigerator containing different sizes of their...

Paso with perhaps a detour to Fort Davis. Whew. Probably a lot more detail than you expected—-but hopefully the trail will lead to some good food. Thanks for any input you may be able to provide.

. What would you recommend? Or even a neighborhood? He likes to have regional food, so for a nice meal, we’re thinking about either seafood or southern. For seafood, the only place I know is oceanaire. Where else has good...

for a shrimp etouffee. Lo and behold we found the same variety of cajun/creole seasonings and stove-top boxed foods as we saw at Louie Kee’s. I would venture to say that Central Fish Co. has a slightly better selection of...

A few months ago we mad a short trip to three of the National Parks in Southern Utah: Zion, Bryce Canyon and Arches. The parks are spectacular as is some of the country between them. Once or twice we roughed it, but we did eat at...

Mississippi’s hot tamales just got hotter, thanks to the oral history efforts of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

The test kitchen loves doing recipe research.

There’s a disconnect between the culture of wine-tasting and the truth of wine-drinking.

The Southern Foodways Alliance also has trails for Louisiana – The Gumbo Trail (http://www.southerngumbotrail.com/) and The Boudin Trail (http://www.southernboudintrail.com/introduction.shtml). Another great resource for...

the Palace Cafe in downtown Opelousas is a nice lil' small town diner; old fashioned feel. You’re in the heart of boudin country...check out the Southern Boudin Trail at http://www.southernboudintrail.com/

I tried Janise’s boudin for the first time this weekend at the Boudin Cookoff in Lafayette...it was excellent, with just enough liver & loaded with fresh green onions. Here’s an oral history with the Janise’s...

An intrepid Bay Area forager launches a business.

As with most of my trip, I was (obviously) taking a minor road. I discovered to my delight that you can go 60 miles per hour on lots of secondary and even tertiary roads down here. There’s just no reason to take freeways.