I encounter Escoffier Nathalie Dupree The pleasures of reading cookbooks no one has ever heard of New Bern A hometown in the Low Country My first novelist The Bill Dufford summer A recipe is a story Honeymoon: the romance of Umbria Travel: Tuscany & Rome Letter from Rome Italian waiter Eugene Walter of Mobile Southerner in Paris Bridesmaids' luncheon Why dying down South is more fun Oyster roasts Men grilling Vidalia onions The greatest of all South Carolinians Frank Stitt Eating in New Orleans Julian Bach