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Eating My Words: Toughing it out through holiday meals of years past Cliff Bostock Culture November 28, 2017 0When the holidays rolled around when I was 18, I was a freshman at William and Mary in Virginia. The...
Eating My Words: Krog Street Market’s Bar Mercado worth a repeat visit Cliff Bostock Culture November 15, 2017 0Remember how you crawled out of your mother’s womb and, 20 years later, sashayed into the Eagle or Blake’s? Suddenly,...
Eating My Words: Sichuan succulence at Yummy Spicy Cliff Bostock Culture October 30, 2017 0My mother often took me to Chinese restaurants when I was a kid. I was always dragged into the kitchen...
Eating My Words: Roles of Atlanta restaurants in Prides past Cliff Bostock Culture October 18, 2017 0For a few years in the late ‘70s, my partner Rick and I use to hold a party in advance...
Eating My Words: In search of scrumptious chicken Cliff Bostock Culture October 1, 2017 0Tommy, my longtime friend and frequent dinner companion, recently experienced a health crisis that requires he eat as close to...
Eating My Words: Bro-ing down at B’s Cracklin’ Barbecue Cliff Bostock Culture September 18, 2017 0As you know, gay men are obsessed with being “masc.” To earn the distinction requires, according to social media sites,...
Eating My Words: Hatch chiles, Jamaican food test Atlanta’s palates Cliff Bostock Culture September 7, 2017 0This week, we’re visiting a couple of hot spots. First up is the annual six-week homage to the renowned Hatch...
Eating My Words: Eating through the grief at Grant Central Cliff Bostock Culture August 23, 2017 0My last three weeks have totally sucked. First, a 120-year-old oak tree fell on the wrap-around porch of the house...
Eating My Words: 25 years of dining with drag queens Cliff Bostock Culture August 8, 2017 0When I was 20, I married a woman. Five years later, we divorced, and I began exploring Atlanta’s gay drag...
Eating My Words: Birthday favorites in and out of town Cliff Bostock Culture June 27, 2017 0The birthday monster arrived at my door June 16 to scrape more hair from my scalp and drain more collagen...
Eating My Words: The downside of being a food critic Cliff Bostock Culture June 8, 2017 0As a dining critic for 30-plus years, I have visited different restaurants four or five times a week. People used...