Southern Cook Carlye Jane Dougherty Talks Cookbooks and Culinary Arts

Mary Gilbert Food and Wine, History, Interviews, Shops, United States September 9, 2022Carlye Jane Dougherty, Charleston, Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits, Cookbooks, Cooking, Culinary Arts, Heirloom Book Company, Kiawah Island, Literature of Food, South Carolina, Southern chefs, Suzanne Pollak, The I Hate to Cook Book, Travel, Travel writer 2 Comments

Southern Cook Carlye Jane Dougherty Talks Cookbooks and Culinary Arts

Carlye Jane Dougherty and I are casually seated next to an exposed red brick fireplace in her charming home in historic downtown Charleston, SC. We’re sipping a perfectly chilled white wine, which helps soften the balmy afternoon air wafting inRead more

Entertaining Expert Suzanne Pollak on Living More Beautifully at Home

Mary Gilbert Food and Wine, Homes and Gardens, Interviews, United States April 24, 2018Charleston, Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits, Cooking, Entertaining, Entertaining for Dummies, Suzanne Pollak, The Pat Conroy Cookbook 4 Comments

Entertaining Expert Suzanne Pollak on Living More Beautifully at Home

Suzanne Pollak is preparing a frisée salad for our lunch. She adds bacon (“You do eat pork?” she considerately asks), grinds some of her new-favorite pepper mélange, and tops the bowl with the largest, toastiest, most geometrically precise cubes of croutonsRead more