How long have your family lived off the land? I’m 47 years old and grew up hunting and fishing. My parents grew up in the country. My mother came from a large family that owned a farm in southeast Georgia
I was shocked to hear that your restaurant has been destroyed by hurricane three times now. How do you pick yourself up after this to carry on? We have always endured hardships in this region since we first settled here
How long has your supper club been running? Tamara: We started cooking dinner together, just for the sake of cooking and feeding ourselves, not long after we met in late 2002. That soon evolved into having our friends over regularly
How long has farming /ranching been in your family? Since 1889. Hip's great grandparents William and Bessie Tillett set up their homesteaded on Crooked Creek and started the TX Ranch. The TX brand came from Texas. Hip's great grandfather William
How long have you been into food? Since I was 11 years old How did you get into cooking? When my mom went shopping with her welfare check on the first of every month, I would make her buy me
Story by Peter Wrapson Well, after a blinding June the ‘barbecue summer’ prophesied by the Met Office was largely rained-off. Still, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful in September, with or without any Indian Summer. There’s plenty left