While the majority of our visits are with regular everyday families making regular everyday dishes – we have two meals with two special people who happen to work in and with food, in extraordinary ways.
Patricia of Sweetish Hill Bakery in Austin
And …
Katia of The Silver Spoon in Baton Rouge
Stay tuned for fresh advice and perspective from real culinary warriors.
For me, eating has become more than just staving off a case of the low-blood sugar crabbies. It’s a balancing act between nourishing my body, thinking about flavors and textures in my mouth, talking and listening to my neighbors, learning and having that warm love feeling float around the table. It’s about discovery and experimenting. Food feeds your body which feeds your brain.
At our Midland Dinner last night – the love and the warmth just gushed into the corner of every room. This family scoops you along and brings you to the family core almost immediately. Big families that include friends and freedom of thought are the perfect combination for comfortable self-expression.
We sat down to a dinner of Soul Food on a cold Wednesday Night inside the brightly lit house. Every room was well lit and welcoming – and for the most part contained at least one dinner diner in it. Horace was in the living room searching for anything Sports-related to watch. Mama Caroline, Stella and Dorothy were seated at the kitchen table laughing and recollecting together. Matt and grandson Cameron were clowning around near the fridge, getting ready to tend to the ribs while Terry put together the finishing touches on the dessert.
Corn Bread, Collared Greens, Steeped Green Beans, Ribs, Homemade Macaroni and Cheese and a flaky Peach Cobbler for dessert. All the Lemonade and Sweet Tea you could drink – was yours for the taking.
Two fellow diners, were on Day 15 of a Daniel Fast. I’ll go more in depth, on the Daniel Fast shortly in another post. But my big take away from the fast, perhaps shows the differences between lives in one state to the next, or one family to the next. Or one woman to the next. Most people whom I have known to go on fasts – did so to lose weight in a hurry for some special event or occasion.
These two were on the fast, for reasons relating to the mental, the soul and love. They explained to me that the Daniel Fast is used to help solve inner demons, restore spirituality and maintain & elevate relationships. A fast feeds your body so you don’t starve – but reserves all your energy to feed your mind and spirit.
Novel concept.
For those of us not on a fast, here is Mama Carolyn’s Cornbread Recipe:
In a bowl, mix the first seven (7) ingrediants. Add cooking oil. Mix well.
Pour into a greased 9X9X2 inch baking pan. Bake in a 425 oven, for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 8-9 Servings.
Click this calendar for a very, very, rough outline of where we’ll be stopping for Lunch & Dinner starting Wednesday when Melissa Arrives in Atlanta. Philip.
Melissa & I are just a couple days away from starting our cross country dining extravaganza and this morning I had the chance to plug our trip and talk photography on television. The show, Rise n Shine, is a live morning show that airs Monday through Friday from 6-7 a.m. on our local NBC Affiliate, WLTZ.
Special thanks to Videographer Joe Paull for taping the show and Miller for letting me appear on the show with just a moments notice. It was a great experience and a wonderful primer for future interviews.
I started wondering what foods, Phil and I will see most frequently on the road on this first leg of a circular American road trip. I can’t even begin to imagine what the South and Southwest will embrace. I think I know, California. But do I? Do we? Does anyone?
I predict, that we will see alot of:
French Bread
Milk
Chicken
Broccoli
Pasta
Because that is what I see most often here in Northern California at the average dinner invite eat over. I’m not allergic to anything. So I’m game for everything, prepared any which way. I really can’t wait to start this project.
First dinner: Wednesday-January 16, 2008-Columbus, GA
Stay tuned. . .
Winter Leg of Sip.Snap.Savor:
Wednesday January 16th – Columbus, GA
Thursday January 17th – Atlanata, GA
Friday January 18th – New Orleans, LA
Sunday January 19th – Baton Rouge, LA
Tuesday January 21 – Austin, TX
Wednesday January 22 – Phoenix, AZ
Thursday January 23 – San Diego, CA
Friday January 24 – Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, January 25 – Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, January 26 – San Francisco, CA
Home to Santa Cruz, CA
Are you out there? We need a family in Arizona …
sipsnapsavor@gmail.com
We are looking for you. Yes, you. The everyday, the beautiful, the earnest, the kitchen warriors, the warm families and the curious. We are looking for people to participate in a very special project which entails opening your doors to two strangers who will morph into two new friends.
Team Sip.Snap.Savor is embarking on a social experiment and real time capsule project. We will be road tripping across the United States dining with everyday people and capturing their stories, recipes, kitchens and meals.
This is for you IF-
you would like to be photographed, listened to and admired.
you would like to share a bit of your life over a home cooked meal.
you would like to be captured just as you are right now.
you are interested in dining with a magnetic photographer and a dynamic writer.
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Upcoming dates open for participation:
January 16-26th 2008
Columbus, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia
New Orleans
Austin, Texas
El Paso, Texas
Yuma, Arizona
San Diego, California
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
Posted in Dates and Cities 2008, Melissa Schilling, Philip Wartena, Team S.S.S., The Beginning
Tagged family, Food, fun, journalism, melissa schilling, philip wartena, photography, recipe, road trip, south, story, west
Sip.Snap.Savor is a road trip project designed to photograph and capture regular people, in their homes preparing and enjoying life’s simplest of pleasures. Food. We will compile recipes and food thoughts & advice that are at the core of traditional knowledge. Americana in it’s most current and real form; at the dinner table.
We will explore rich ideas like:
What common threads bind different communities together?
Food.
The United States is a diverse and jumbled country filled with wonderful people. We hope to bring as many people to life as we can . . .
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