October 10

The new food issue of Garden & Gun is an embaressment of riches. There's a Vanessa Gregory profile of SFA filmmaker Joe York. And a Wright Thompson dispatch from the Memphis in May BBQ contest, wherein my son Jess talks of Jello shots. 

I have four pieces in the issue. One on the LA restuarant Animal, which I'll post soon. The other three are about Charlotte, NC. Can this banking metropolis lay claim to being a food city? Here I answer maybe. Here I isolate the good stuff. Here I profile three key Charlotteans.