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Category: Southern

  • Howlin’ Ray’s Hot Chicken

    Howlin’ Ray’s Hot Chicken

    I’m not the most versed in regional American cuisine, so until recently I hadn’t realized that Tennessee, specifically Nashville, had a variation on fried chicken known as Hot Chicken.  Neither embedded in the meat, marinade, or batter, nor sloshed with sauce until dripping, the fried chicken is rendered “hot” by the manual application of cayenne […]

  • The Early Bird Special at Flores and The Ladies’ Gunboat Society

    The Early Bird Special at Flores and The Ladies’ Gunboat Society

    Flores on Sawtelle, in West Los Angeles’s Little Osaka neighborhood, opened just over a year ago, with the dishes introduced by its opening chefs, husband-wife team Rob Lawson and Angela Hernandez, both alums of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in NYC, well received.  In April of this year, however, the two chefs and owner Amal Flores […]