Bettie Bettie Jean’s
It
pays to have connections. Bettina Evans invited French High Class of ’83
classmates to a get together at her new restaurant Bettie Jean’s Homestyle
Cooking. She served us chicken spaghetti for dinner, even though she’s usually
just open at lunch. A few of us got shrimp and grits and one stuck to her diet
and got shrimp over salad greens. Several of us got tiny pies to take home. My
sweet potato pie made a great breakfast the next day, though some of the
coconut pies were devoured on site, at 2604 Dowlen Road in Beaumont.
I’m
seeing on Facebook that Bettie Jean’s is getting well known and getting good
reviews for a variety of soul foods that I’m looking forward to check out for
lunch. French folks are wishing you well, Bettina!
Sounds
Good: Pumpkin
The
pumpkin has begun. Before the white went away for Labor Day, I stepped into a
supermarket and pumpkin snack cakes, pumpkin soup, pumpkin coffee and the like
popped from every aisle. I drove
home to find pumpkin décor dotting several yards. For two or three years, this
column has recorded pumpkin alerts. Readers, share your favorite pumpkin
discoveries.
Sounds
Good: Seasonal color
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A world of adventure
I’d
love to blend my culinary global tour with cultures of the world. A new atlas
designed for children fuels my desires. The great sardine run of South Africa?
Never heard of it before this book. The fact that peahens choose mates on the
size and quality of the peacock’s tail feathers, entertaining and not
surprising. November and December in Zambia’s Kasanka National Park is the time
when mangos and waterberries are at their best, so that’s when 8 million
straw-colored fruit bats head gather for the largest mammal migration anywhere
on earth. Did not know that before. You don’t need a kid to enjoy “Atlas of
Animal Adventures: A Collection of Nature’s Most Unmissable Events, Epic
Migrations and Extraordinary Behaviors,” but it sure would make a great
afternoon to enjoy learning with one. Lucy Letherland illustrated this
oversized book and Rachel Williams and Emily Hawkins wrote it. I’ve always
loved a good Atlas. This one will hold interest for years.
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