{"id":695796,"date":"2010-03-19T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2010-03-19T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:08:24","slug":"road-food-mississippi-louisiana-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695796","title":{"rendered":"Road Food: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2831\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 235px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2831\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/113-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Mayflower Cafe, Jackson MS\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayflower Cafe, Jackson MS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from spending a few days in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, where I had the\u00a0 pleasure of meeting <strong>Alice Waters<\/strong> &#8212; the great chef, cookbook author and inspiration for the good food movement. Waters was in central Louisiana to celebrate the first harvest from the Avoyelles Charter Public School &#8220;Edible Schoolyard&#8221; &#8212; one of many such school vegetable gardens that have opened around the country since Waters first developed the program for the Berkeley, California, school system.<\/p>\n<p>Waters shared top billing at this event with the Parish&#8217;s best known native-son chef &#8211;\u00a0 <strong>Joe Truex<\/strong> of Repast Restaurant, whom I accompanied. (Joe and his wife\/co-chef <strong>Mihoko Obunai<\/strong> are my neighbors and good friends, which is why I have never shared any opinion about their restaurant in this blog and always disclose the relationship when his name comes up in a news story).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write a piece about this event next week, but in the meantime I wanted to share some\u00a0 &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayflower Cafe, Jackson MS I&#8217;ve just returned from spending a few days in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, where I had the\u00a0 pleasure of meeting Alice Waters &#8212; the great chef, cookbook author and inspiration for the good food movement. Waters was in central Louisiana to celebrate the first harvest from the Avoyelles Charter Public School &#8220;Edible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2V0w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}