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KARACOOKS
KARACOOKS
Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • Ruth Bader Ginsberg

    ByKara September 20May 16 Personal

    I don’t have words to describe how I feel about RBGs death at this particular time but this spoke to me. From a post on FB:—–There’s a few posts going around reminding folks that since RBG is Jewish, the proper thing to say about her passing is “May her memory be for blessing,” which is…

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  • Antoine’s, New Orleans: How the Mighty Have Fallen

    ByKara January 6May 16 Restaurant Reviews

    I never in a million years thought I’d be giving Antoine’s one star. That’s how the Yelp review I wrote in early 2020 opens, and I’m starting this post the same way because I want to be honest about how reluctantly I got here. Antoine’s is one of the iconic restaurants in New Orleans. It…

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  • Chesapeake Bay & Charleston  – Vacation

    Chesapeake Bay & Charleston – Vacation

    ByKara September 29May 16 Recipes, Travel

    I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of the post). This past winter, in the middle of a…

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  • Austin, Tx | Spring Vacation

    Austin, Tx | Spring Vacation

    ByKara May 5May 16 Travel

    I had an opportunity to spend a little bit of vacation time in Austin last month. Although I was born in Dallas, I consider Austin my hometown; it’s where I went to high school and college and spent the most formative years of my life. Central Texas has always held a special place in my…

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  • collard greens | © karacooks

    My Favorite Collard Greens

    ByKara January 23May 16 Personal, Recipes

    There is a restaurant here in Atlanta that is well known for it’s chicken dishes. Last year they opened a location up near my house but I wasn’t exactly beating a track to the door. I mean … chicken? I roast a mean chicken myself and who wanted to pay Alpharetta restaurant prices for roasted…

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    Travel: The Good, the Bad, and the Mundane

    ByKara January 1June 1 Travel

    Not a travel blog. No destination guides or SEO itineraries; just honest accounts of real trips, the good, the bad, and the mundane parts.

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    Restaurant Reviews

    ByKara January 1June 3 Restaurant Reviews

    Honest restaurant reviews of places I paid to eat at. No comped meals, no pay-for-play, no star ratings. About 90% love, 10% telling you the truth.

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    Behind the Blog

    ByKara January 1June 1 Behind the Blog

    A blog post takes five to ten hours to make. This is where I write about the production: the camera, the pizza-box reflector, the cat on the focaccia.

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the word "Cooking" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    Cooking: The Thinking Behind the Doing

    ByKara January 1June 1 Cooking

    Not recipes. This is where the cooking essays live: how I cook and why, the Kamado, the Hatch chile ritual, the eight-pie Thanksgiving. The thinking behind the doing.

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the words "What Got Lost" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    What Got Lost: An Introduction

    ByKara January 1June 1 What Got Lost

    Every food has a backstory and most of the ones we got told are wrong. A series on food history: what got lost in the telling, and who benefited from the loss.

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the words "Our Creek House" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    Our Creek House

    ByKara January 1June 1 Our Creek House

    A fifty-year-old house on a creek in Johns Creek, Georgia, and our project since 2021. Honest before-and-afters, real budgets, and the receipts on the flipper.

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the words "Personal" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    Personal: The People, Places, and Years

    ByKara January 1June 1 Personal

    The human stories behind the kitchen. Family, pets, grief, year reflections, the trips that mattered. A food blog that’s also the record of a life.

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