By Donna CorneliusThere’s no such thing as too many spoons. Always keep a goat cheese log on hand. And just for fun, top your elegant silver candelabra with Chilton County peaches. Those are just a few of the practical and imaginative bits of insider information in a new cookbook by one of Birmingham’s best-known caterers. In “Food, Fun & Fabulous: Southern … [Read more...]
Hunger Games: How to Get Your Child into Healthy Eating
By Donna CorneliusParents of picky eaters may sometimes wonder whether their child will grow into adulthood still eating only pizza and peanut butter. Thankfully, that’s usually not the case. My older son used to hide cans of green beans in random spots around the house so I couldn’t cook them, and my younger son would willingly eat only one vegetable: corn. Today, … [Read more...]
A Piece of the Pie: Homewood Eatery Is New Fast-Casual Place for Customized Pizzas
By Donna Cornelius Pizza is usually a popular choice for family meals. But there’s often no consensus about which pizza to order: Mom wants the veggie special, Dad’s a carnivore and the kids will eat nothing but plain old cheese.At Your Pie, a new restaurant that opened in Homewood Dec. 18, different tastes are no problem. Customers can customize their own individual … [Read more...]
They Have Donuts: Four Friends Cook up a Business Based on Their Favorite Food
By Donna Cornelius That thing you have for doughnuts? It’s in your genes. At least, that’s what Phil Amthor believes. “Everybody has a love for doughnuts within them from birth,” said Amthor, who started Birmingham’s We Have Doughnuts with his wife, Sara. The company just helps reawaken that primal connection, he said. The small batch, made-from-scratch doughnuts are sold … [Read more...]
Shell Game: Chef Jeremy Downey Wins Two Awards at Oyster Cook-off
By Donna Cornelius When Jeremy Downey eats an oyster, the taste takes him back to his childhood. Downey, the owner and chef of Bistro V in Vestavia Hills, grew up in Bayou La Batre on the Alabama Gulf Coast. “Our next door neighbor was an oyster guy, and he’d bring us a big old sack and say, ‘Here’s 50 pounds of oysters,’” Downey said. “Sometimes he’d just drop them on our … [Read more...]