Archive for the ‘Julia Reed’ Category
Madder Music and Stronger Wine
Julia Reed January 3rd, 2012My New Year’s resolutions, like most people’s, are pretty much the same every year: Get more sleep. Get fit and thus be able to fit into all those very nice (and very expensive) clothes that hang, reproachfully, in my closet. Live in the moment. Clean out my voicemail/text mail/email inboxes and never let them pile [...]
Read MoreHappy New Year 2012!
Julia Reed December 27th, 2011Thank you all for following fetch in 2011. We’ll be back with lots of fun stuff in 2012. In the meantime, we’ll leave you with the immortal words of Oprah, who is herself starting off an entirely different new year: “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” Amen.
Read MoreHoliday Punch
Julia Reed December 20th, 2011More than once, when writing about the holidays, I have quoted Oscar Wilde: “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s relatives.” There is no question that good food is important – tempers are generally running a tad high after all, and an overcooked rib roast or the wrong kind of pie can [...]
Read MoreA Tonic for the Soul
Julia Reed December 13th, 2011This week on Fetch, I’m delighted to announce a new feature, Fetch Bar, that will be written each month by Brooks Reitz, a brilliant mixologist and extremely nice fellow who grew up in Henderson, Kentucky. I met Brooks at a party at Charleston’s Heirloom Books where he sells his Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. Small Batch [...]
Read MoreChristmas Costumes
Julia Reed December 6th, 2011When I was very young, my favorite thing about Christmas was the costume I knew would be under the tree every year, wrapped in the gold paper with silver ribbon that was my grandmother’s trademark. She spoiled me rotten. One year I got a merry go round – a real one with four painted horses [...]
Read MoreMade in the South, Part 2
Julia Reed November 22nd, 2011I state the obvious here, but in honor of Garden & Gun magazine’s “Made in the South“ award winners, which are currently showcased on Taigan, I’ll say it again: All good things have always been Made in the South. A case in point: Garden & Gun itself. I don’t just say this because I write for [...]
Read MoreThe Un-Turkey Day
Julia Reed November 15th, 2011Yet again, it appears that all that stuff they told us in grade school is wrong. First, we found out that the business with George Washington and the cherry tree was made up by an early biographer; now it turns out that the pilgrims did not wear silver buckles on their shoes. They didn’t even [...]
Read MoreThe Stragglers’ Table
Julia Reed November 8th, 2011The first Thanksgiving I spent without my family, I was a junior in college and determined to put my own imprint on the holiday. The menu was decidedly anti-Mama. My mother always makes cornbread dressing and scalloped oysters; I rebelled against both and made oyster dressing with French bread crumbs, a serious deviation from tradition. [...]
Read MoreDining with the Stars
Julia Reed November 1st, 2011When Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins was published in 1971, my father sent a copy to his friend William F. Buckley, Jr., who immediately (and wisely) became obsessed with all things Percy and asked him to appear on “Firing Line,†his long-running public affairs show. When the deal was done, Daddy flew Buckley in [...]
Read MoreElusive Fine: Hot Socks
