By Emily WilliamsAndrew Pharo is a partner at Cahaba Brewing Co., a Birmingham brewery founded in 2011. The microbrewery on Third Avenue South near Pepper Place Market cranks out popular local beers like its American Blonde Ale as well as seasonal and specialty beers.To accommodate its growing business, Cahaba Brewing will be moving to a new location in the Continental … [Read more...]
A Nod to New Orleans: Bebe Goodrich Uses Roots to Create Comfortable Home
By Kaitlin CandelariaBebe Goodrich loves a lot of things about Birmingham.She loves the fact that she can see Vulcan from her back yard and cites it as the main reason she and her husband, Thomas, purchased their Mountain Brook home. She loves that people don’t live as close together as they did in her hometown of New Orleans. She loves that her two sons, Henry and … [Read more...]
Tomato Relish: Southern Favorite is in the Spotlight at First-ever Event
By Donna CorneliusA daylong celebration that moves from downtown Birmingham to a Harpersville farm pays homage to the South’s favorite veggie – or fruit.Tomatoes are fruits, botanically speaking. But in the late 1800s, the U.S. government classified them as vegetables for taxing purposes.However you describe these juicy globes of goodness, you should be able to get … [Read more...]
The Time is Ripe: Morgan Murphy is Looking Forward to New Tomato Festival
By Donna CorneliusMorgan Murphy likes digging into the roots of food.“I talk a lot in my books about why we eat what we eat,” said Murphy, a TV personality, food critic and cookbook author. “You can separate people from their religion, their country and even their family – but not their food.”One of the Birmingham native’s recent cookbooks, “Bourbon & Bacon: The … [Read more...]
Grotting Named ASAPS President
Dr. James C. Grotting was named the president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. A clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grotting also operates a private practice in Birmingham, is a senior examiner and director of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a fellow of the … [Read more...]