Straight from the Porch

Edible DFW is a local food magazine I work for, and the winter issue features family farms and family recipes. Not much of a foodie myself, working on this magazine is a bit like copy editing in a foreign language. But typos are typos no matter where they lay lie, and I have learned to spell Aioli and pomegranate. Unlike me, my two grandmothers expressed themselves several times a day creating in kitchens that were in overdrive during holidays. The grandmother whose porch I write from never spent time sitting there. She was always ginning around the church, the chicken…