Growing up, my family opted for ease at Thanksgiving, as there were at least twenty of us gathering around. And that meant ordering the cooked turkey and dressing from S&S Cafeteria and picking it up on Thanksgiving morning. Needless to say, the side dishes were the stars for me in...
Grey Ghost Blog
Dreaming and Planning
One beautiful spring day, probably twenty-two years ago, I had a picnic lunch with Will Bowen, a friend from high school. Our oldest taste-tester was about a year old and he was with us. Will and I were catching up after not seeing each other for several years. Will recently...
Expect. Employ. Empower.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), an opportunity to celebrate the many and varied contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. In all honesty, NDEAM isn’t something that crossed my radar screen until few months ago. We moved our business to Charleston in May of this year, from Columbia,...
It's National Pecan Cookie Day!
The beginning of fall always makes me think of pecans...ok, I'm sure that sounds a little odd so bear with me. When I was little, there was a pecan grove on my grandfather's farm. In the fall, the cousins would wander through and pick up the pecans that had fallen on the ground. We would...
Family Favorites, Family Business
We just returned from the Summer Fancy Food Show—a huge specialty food trade show in New York. We had a great time at the show, for lots of reasons: we made new friends and saw old ones, met new retailers and took several orders (always a good thing!). We especially...