Hot Off the Skillet

Get the latest news on restaurants, chefs, cookbooks, and food trends around the South.


Holeman & Finch to Open Burger Stand at Turner Field

In case you don’t know, the burgers at Holeman & Finch Public House in Atlanta are kind of a big deal. Since we first told you about them in the January 2010 issue, the fanaticism has only grown.

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Recapping A Tribute to Frank Stitt

Birmingham’s Frank Stitt is an American treasure. On Saturday night, his friends (who happen to be some of the South’s best chefs) gathered to honor him at the Charleston Wine + Food Festival‘s “A Tribute to Frank Stitt.” Each chef cooked a dish to honor Frank, and each dish showcased Frank’s passion for regional ingredients, his respect for technique, and his […]

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Lee Brother’s Cookbook Giveaway

Matt Lee and Ted Lee’s third cookbook is a love letter to Charleston, the capital of the Lowcountry. The James Beard Award-winning authors bring the vibrant food culture of this great Southern city to life, giving readers insider access to the best recipes and stories Charleston has to offer. The best part? We’ve got our hands on two brand-new copies […]

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No, Virginia, You Can’t Fry in the Louvre

An American chef cooks in Paris today as Southern Living Contributing Editor Virginia Willis makes her third trip to the Paris Cookbook Fair. Virginia, the author of two cookbooks herself, is a guest chef at the annual festival that celebrates the best cookbooks worldwide. Parisians will get to sample some of her pulled pork tenderloin with Georgia barbecue sauce and stoneground grits […]

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Shop Local Flavor at Bourbon Barrel Foods

Using distillery discards, chef Matt Jamie is spicing things up in Louisville.

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What I’m Eating Now: Matt McClure

The current buzz in Northwest Arkansas? The Hive, the much-anticipated restaurant tucked into the 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville opened this week (the hotel will follow in February). We pulled chef Matt McClure off the line for a few minutes to find out what’s for dinner in Bentonville–and why he’s so excited to be back cooking in his home state. […]

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Win Tickets to The Loveless Cafe’s Dinner at the James Beard House

Nashville-based The Loveless Cafe is spreading its gospel to New York in the form of a dinner hosted at the James Beard House with a menu full of down-home favorites on Valentine’s Day.

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In Baltimore, A Ravens-Inspired Super Bowl

At Baltimore’s Kennedy-Krieger Institute, the special-ed students who run the school’s Café James are showing their team colors on the menu. When they learned the Ravens would be playing in the Super Bowl–an event they’d long been waiting for–they eagerly dreamed up a purple rain of recipe ideas to serve on Thursday and Friday.

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What I’m Eating Now: E.J. Hodgkinson

When Atlanta star Ford Fry (the chef and owner of No. 246 and The Optimist and Oyster Bar at The Optimist restaurants), asked E.J. Hodgkinson to step into the role of executive chef at JCT. Kitchen & Bar, the popular Southern farmstead-style restaurant that opened last year, the young cook didn’t think twice. 

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Fried Chicken Goes Hollywood

Now that the Oscar nominees have been announced, and the ceremony is little more than a month away, the really serious deliberations begin: What should you serve at your party? This year we’re giving dainty little bites a pass, and handing the statuette to over-the-top Southern fare served by Atlantan-turned-Beverly Hills-resident, Alex Hitz .

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