Memphasis > High Water Marks
May 12th, 2016
LORD KNOWS, THE CRICK DOES RISE. The last time I was on a cook team, the Mississippi was lapping at the top of Tom Lee Park and I’d been lapping at a number of things for a couple of days myself. On May 15, 1983, the river crested at 39.2' on the Memphis gauge, the river and I way above flood stage on anybody’s gauge. Very early that morning, I opened my ...
Memphasis > Memphis Barbecue Primer
May 5th, 2016
IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR BARBECUE HERE, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE YOU GET IT. The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is next week. One of my first columns was about defining barbecue when no definition should be necessary. Sadly, we’ve slipped further and further down a saucy slope and basic definitions are required again. Any pig cooked for a ...
Memphasis > Unbelievable
April 28th, 2016
THE STATE OF UN. In this nadir of presidential elections with everyone awash in slimy sound bites, with Congress and a Supreme Court nominee stuck in the mud, it takes truly jaw-dropping state legislative idiocy to draw the attention of the national media, make the monologues of late night hosts and inspire Saturday Night Live skits. The Tennessee General Assembly ...
Memphasis > Tickled Pink
April 21st, 2016
MEMPHIS IN BLACK AND WHITE. AND PINK. I’m glad Billy Orgel got engaged at Justine’s because that inspired his family to save it, not because they miss the crystal and crabmeat but because the place is personal. The Orgels didn’t save the Tennessee Brewery or turn the old #3 firehouse into a pop-up beer hall because they needed a pint. They did those things ...
Memphasis > R.I.P. Sears Laurelwood
April 14th, 2016
DOUG, JANICE, SUSAN, PETE, DAD. AND SEARS. Doug Ford – two-time major winner and golf hall of famer – is 93, and coincidently that’s what I shot at Ridgeway last week. Janice was a high school girlfriend, and she liked her horse a lot more than me. Susan was a junior-high girlfriend, or whatever you are when you’re 12, and our relationship was ...
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