Monday is Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a national holiday here in the United States celebrated every year on the final Monday of May. Memorial Day’s purpose is to give our nation a day to remember the men and women who died to protect our nation’s freedoms while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [...]
This time of year, your schedule gets busy. That whole end-of-school-year schedule sets in, with graduations, music and dance recitals, baseball games, awards days, school programs, exams, half-days… with so much vying for your attention, make mealtime stress-free with these convenient and tasty take-out ideas from local restaurants in the Jackson metro area. The seven ideas [...]
The second annual Stray at Home Art + Music Festival is in downtown Jackson THIS Saturday! The Stray at Home event raises awareness for JIG (Jackson Inner-city Gardeners). There is a heavy emphasis on local, and especially as an event for JIG, an emphasis on fresh foods! That’s right: not only is this event extremely exciting [...]
Blue Plate Specials are a Southern staple, and there’s a reason the Blue Plate has been around for so long. Quick, easy, and more often than not, downright delicious. Why mess with a good thing? Chef Chris Haley at Ridgeland’s The Cotton Kitchen agrees. Every day at lunch, this chef’s Mississippi restaurant, with its signature [...]
Editor’s Note: Beginning this week Eat Jackson is amping up our Monday Jolt series with an extra shot of espresso going forward. Each week we’ll catch up with a local restaurant owner, chef or local personality to get the inside dish. Each week, you can comment below and suggest additional questions or folks to interview. [...]
Lots of people like to eat donuts - probably millions do, in fact. A smaller, but still quite large, number of people would claim to love donuts. And I’m sure there is a smallish contingent of donut aficionados who would even make the claim, “I can’t live without donuts.” But how many people do you know [...]
Cock of the Walk in Ridgeland, right on the Reservoir, is like no restaurant I’ve ever been to before. It is charming, old fashioned, without all the modern glamour. As we sat down to order, I stared blankly at the menu until it registered with me that there are only two options: Catfish or Chicken. [...]
I don’t even have to explain this clever little word play to the true nerds among us, but for the rest of you: “May the Force be with you” is the iconic Jedi blessing, and one of the most recognizable lines from Star Wars. That’s why, on May 4th, Sneaky Beans in Fondren will be [...]
THIS JUST IN: Sal & Mookie’s was taken over by King Kong! Okay, not really. Sal & Mookie’s was not taken over by King Kong (no matter what the event poster indicates). But they WERE taken over by Chef Jesse Houston, who orchestrated last night’s The Empire State Strikes Back: Pop-Up Pizza, another amazing event at [...]
In a world where there seems to be a lot of craziness, occasionally, Providence wins. Take today, for instance. This morning, while taking our son to day care (via the same route we have been taking for nearly 2 years), we passed the gas station sign we’ve been passing for awhile: “Suck the Shuck Tamales, [...]
Every once in a while, when The Husband and I are feeling nostalgic, we’ll reflect on the cruise we took for our honeymoon. One of the ports of call was Montego Bay, Jamaica. Almost seven years later, we still talk about this roadside shack we stopped at during our shore excursion that sold the best [...]
Foodies in Jackson and Gulfport will have the opportunity next week to experience the re-creation of an exclusive dining experience that received rave reviews in its debut in New York City in March of this year. In March, acclaimed Mississippi chefs, Derek Emerson, from Walker’s Drive-In and Local 463 urban kitchen in the Jackson metro [...]
The Best Burger in Jackson Nominations were made. A bracket was set. And head to head time and time and time and time again, Babalu’s Baba Burger pulled through the match-ups. Sometimes narrowly. Sometimes by a healthy margin. And when it came time for the buzzer on the final round, they beat out their sister [...]
