Omnivore Atlanta

Ugh, pie crust. Once you’ve had homemade it’s almost impossible to go back to the frozen variety. But it’s a conundrum – all butter crusts taste better but tend to get stiff. Vegetable shortening crusts are flaky but have that strange flavor. I found a great recipe in the Gourmet cookbook that combined the two, but it was such a pain in the ass. Half way through I’d be standing with my rolling pin cursing the poor pie before it even got to the pie dish. Our former Kitchen Witch columnist Kim O’Donnel claims to have figured it out.  It seems the secret is vinegar. Hmmm….

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We were sad to see Kitchen Witch depart on her broom last week. The writer, Kim O’Donnel, has left us to devote more time to her new blog on RealSimple.com. You can check out her blog here.

We decided to take the opportunity to switch up the section a little, and in tomorrow’s paper you will see a couple of new features.

Cheap Eats will now share a page with Mouthful, a roundup of places to find a particular food around town. Those of you who have been reading the section for a while may remember this feature from a few years back. We’ll also be debuting a short bar review titled Liquid Diet. We hope to give you a feel for some of the hot new bars and old favorites around town.

I’m also extremely excited to announce that Jennifer Zyman, aka the Blissful Glutton, will be contributing frequently to the section starting in tomorrow’s issue. Jennifer has a wealth of knowledge regarding Atlanta’s dining scene, its ethnic food in particular, and we are incredibly happy to have her as a contributer. Check out her Cheap Eats tomorrow about Supermarket Chicago on Buford Highway and her Mouthful on NY-style pizza.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the new features, suggestions for places to cover, or comments about anything in the Food & Drink section. Please feel free to email me at besha.rodell@creativeloafing.com.

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Our own Kitchen Witch, Kim O’Donnel, has released a cookbook to get you through the holidays. The slim book, A Mighty Appetite for the Holidays, will get you through this entire insanity-filled season, from Thanksgiving turkey to hangover noodles on New Year’s Day. Other standouts include Kim’s awesome pumpkin-tofu pie, a primer on doing Thanksgiving for one, and as always, Kitchen Witch’s soothing, funny, helpful commentary.

You can order the book here.

Also, check out Kim’s Washington Post food blog, A Mighty Appetite, here.

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