“Mazy paths of rivers meander and by disposition I do the same,” says Martha Hall Foose at the beginning of her newest cookbook, A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home. The book is an interesting ramble through Foose’s culinary repertoire, foods local to Mississippi (including game, crawdads, and Premium Number One Beauregard sweet potatoes), sweet personal stories,
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Fish Lake, where our horse trek began. Hidalgo, who ran with us for the entire trip. For every ten miles we rode, he ran twenty. One of the most splendid dogs I have ever seen. July isn’t the ideal time to visit the Yukon, because of the epic numbers of biting bugs. Canadian mosquitoes, in Biblical swarms, considered pleasant Badger brand insect
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I never tire of the Lewis and Clark story. L & C weren’t the first to chart the route they took (the Canadians beat them to it, with the MacKenzie expedition, and the French fur trappers had, of course, already been wandering that part of the west for years), and their journey’s success did spell ultimate doom for the
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