One of my favorite small gustatory pleasures has been the fresh basil rolls at Surin of Thailand. They’re a cold appetizer of rice paper surrounding rice vermicelli, fresh Thai basil, lettuce, bean sprouts, and bits of shrimp and pork, served with a sweet-hot plum-peanut sauce. They’re a definite luxury at $4.50, but absolutely divine. These … Read more
Folks, really? As loath as I am to discuss the 2013 Iron Bowl again, it seems far too many folks aren’t getting some things right, so here I am to help. (You can always rely on BoWilliams.com to tell you what you should think.) Dig: Auburn was not lucky. Yes, the ending was wild, but … Read more
So asks Reeves Wiedeman, writing for The New Yorker, in this charming examination of the Iron Bowl. (The whole quote is “who are we, in parts of the country with professional sports to cheer and (relatively) thriving economies to enjoy, to deny Alabamans a bit of crowing?” But, my post titles are automatically tweeted, and … Read more