Here are my top ten dishes, the ones I think you should eat in 2013.

From lardo-wrapped tuna to one hell of a tomato sandwich, as published in Garden & Gun. 

In the new Garden & Gun I write about St. James Cheese Company in New Orleans, riffing on the various smells that define that city, from dumpster juice to bouganville.

The Biscuit Pit in Grenada, Mississippi is half gas station, half restaurant. It's also a temple of biscuitry. I'm not sure that's a word. But here are some actual words from my Garden & Gun column about the women who bake those biscuits. 

Here's a piece I did for Departures, a profile of Alon Shaya, the chef at Domenica in New Orleans. It begins in the garage of an alcoholic school crossing guard in Italy.