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Tips for Growing Tomatoes

It’s hard to imagine summer without homegrown tomatoes. Even if you don’t actually grow the luscious fruit in your own
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Read “Mr Portwood’s Tomatoes” in Salvation South

It's a true story: the best tomatoes I ever ate were grown by Mr. Portwood in his home garden. I share how I got to know
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Not My Mama’s Black Eyed Peas & Greens

This recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog December 26, 2010. Visit my mom’s house on New Year’s Day and you
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Food

Granddaddy’s Cast-Iron Skillet Fried Corn

One of the distinctive characteristics of living in the New South, cookie-cutter suburban Atlanta, is that the Old
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