If someone dared you to eat cooked hog intestines, would you accept the challenge? Well, chitlins (or chitterlings) are just that: the intestines of a pig that are boiled or fried in spices and ...

A few weeks ago, my 82-year-old grandmother Annie Marie Murphy came to visit me from Los Angeles. Getting her on a plane is a fairly large feat and so much of her visit was aimed at showing her around ...

SALLEY, S.C. – Mark Hartley is really trying. The sudden halt in his speech signals he's thinking hard. It isn't because of bad cell reception where he lives, the backcountry some 40 miles southwest ...

This was the rare holiday season in which I didn’t have a bowl of home-cooked chitterlings, which are pigs’ intestines — “chitlins” to the initiated. I typically enjoy them twice a year, among ...