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And, Lo, They Brought Forth to the Potluck a Bucket O’Chicken
And, Lo, They Brought Forth to the Potluck a Bucket O’Chicken
Potluck is a tapestry of oneness. Except for that big bucket of KFC chicken sitting right there.
Andrew Donaldson
Nov 17, 2019
Welcome to Yonder and Home
Welcome to Yonder and Home
So let’s tell those stories, of food, folks, and faith, to the people who matter most in the places where we find them.
Andrew Donaldson
Apr 24, 2020
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Time and Tide and Hashbrowns: A Waffle House Christmas
Time and Tide and Hashbrowns: A Waffle House Christmas
Some might scoff that anything magical can happen at a Waffle House, but like Christmas itself it is what you believe and put into it.
Andrew Donaldson
Dec 25, 2021
A Poem, A Prayer & A Promise: The Power of Take Me Home, Country Roads
A Poem, A Prayer & A Promise: The Power of Take Me Home, Country Roads
How a song written about someplace else by someone who had never been there became an anthem for folks everywhere.
Andrew Donaldson
May 28, 2020
Nearly Automatic for the People: The Great American Story of Waffle House
Nearly Automatic for the People: The Great American Story of Waffle...
You know the details just from the words “Waffle House”: Good food fast, friendly service, scattered, smothered, & covered, reasonable…
Andrew Donaldson
May 17, 2020
Faith and Fairy Tales: Mad Kings, Martyred Saints, and Masses of Tourist
Faith and Fairy Tales: Mad Kings, Martyred Saints, and Masses of To...
History, faith, and fairy tales all collide in a Bavarian field containing a obscure church lorded over by the world’s most famous castle
Andrew Donaldson
May 11, 2020
Blue Cola Blues: The Ups & Downs of Life and RC Cola — Yonder & Home
Blue Cola Blues: The Ups & Downs of Life and RC Cola — Yonder & Home
Back to where it started: a father’s trip to the far corner of a grocery store just so his kid can say they drank soda out of a glass…
Andrew Donaldson
May 6, 2020
Ketchup, Catsup, and the Curious Controversies of Condiments
Ketchup, Catsup, and the Curious Controversies of Condiments
Our second most popular condiment sells 10 billion ounces a year in 97 percent of American households. Just don’t put ketchup on your…
Andrew Donaldson
May 3, 2020
Innovated, Mandated, Regulated, and Elevated: Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese — Yonder & Home
Innovated, Mandated, Regulated, and Elevated: Tomato Soup and Grill...
Chicken Soup might be for the soul, but it’s tomato soup and grilled cheese that has fed generations of military, school children, and…
Andrew Donaldson
May 1, 2020
Everything But the Oink: The Fire and Folks of Whole Hog Barbecue
Everything But the Oink: The Fire and Folks of Whole Hog Barbecue
When you absolutely, positively have to feed a whole mess of folks, accept no substitute for the time-honored pig pickin’.
Andrew Donaldson
Apr 29, 2020
Burnt Ends: The Fast History of Low and Slow Life
Burnt Ends: The Fast History of Low and Slow Life
He chewed, making a deep rumbling noise among the masticating before the actual word formed and escaped his still-in-motion mouth. “Glory.”
Andrew Donaldson
Apr 8, 2020
Corn Dog: The Beef Wellington of Common Folks, On a Stick
Corn Dog: The Beef Wellington of Common Folks, On a Stick
So is it really foodie sacrilege to compare the vaunted Beef Wellington to the humble corn dog? Not historically, at least.
Andrew Donaldson
Feb 19, 2020
Celebrating Life with a Pocket Full of Death
Celebrating Life with a Pocket Full of Death
I’m not a fan of social functions. I make it a habit to avoid them. I’ve been to a whole mess of funerals. Those are less avoidable.
Andrew Donaldson
Feb 9, 2020
A Real Audience, In This Clever Place, and The Band Was Playing
A Real Audience, In This Clever Place, and The Band Was Playing
Jim Cullum, The Landing, and Jazz The Way It Was Meant To Be
Andrew Donaldson
Oct 31, 2019
Breakfast, Luncheon, and Timeless: The Glories of the BLT
Breakfast, Luncheon, and Timeless: The Glories of the BLT
The BLT: The branding is good, the history is amazing, and above all else it just tastes great
Andrew Donaldson
Oct 28, 2019
A Bottle of Red, A Half Gallon of White
A Bottle of Red, A Half Gallon of White
Billy Joel, a Nebraskan plumber in Alaska, and why you should never joke about ranch dressing at an Italian restaurant
Andrew Donaldson
Oct 15, 2019
The Joy of Kebab, From Doner Till Dawn
The Joy of Kebab, From Doner Till Dawn
A good doner kebab can improve a bad day, mark a good one, and even be the key to curing and/or preventing a hangover. Allegedly.
Andrew Donaldson
Oct 3, 2019
Abomination: The Desolation of the KFC Biscuit
Abomination: The Desolation of the KFC Biscuit
For shame. What would Harland think?
Andrew Donaldson
Sep 24, 2019
To Lift This Great Social Incubus of Bad Cooking
To Lift This Great Social Incubus of Bad Cooking
Much good was done through something that seems so simple as measuring things out and teaching people to do so.
Andrew Donaldson
Aug 23, 2019
A Timeless Box Full of Whistles
A Timeless Box Full of Whistles
The story of Handel, a young Mozart, a Dutch church, Johnny Cash, and holding my kids hand, all set to the subtle sounds of a pipe organ.
Andrew Donaldson
Aug 18, 2019
Bless the Food, And the Hands That Provided It
Bless the Food, And the Hands That Provided It
Food is funny in that way; since it is a required substance for life it can be quite the touchstone to check on different points in the…
Andrew Donaldson
Aug 11, 2019
God and Man at the Burning of Notre Dame
God and Man at the Burning of Notre Dame
Time may be a devourer, but fire has long been the enemy of the great stone cathedrals
Andrew Donaldson
Apr 16, 2019
A Philistine Pondering on the Symphony
A Philistine Pondering on the Symphony
I didn't know much…I just know it sounds good.
Andrew Donaldson
Jul 4, 2018
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