Summer Foods Etiquette
Fabulous and Over 40
A native of Las Vegas and graduate of Southern University, Damon Hodge has been writing professionally for 12 years. His journalistic experience includes weekly and daily newspapers, including time as a casino gaming reporter for lasvegasgamingwire.com (affiliated with the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal), a stint as an award-winning staff writer for Las Vegas Weekly, the city’s preeminent alternative newsweekly publication, as well as publication, as a freelancer, in a wide array of outlets from Travel Weekly newspaper and Golf Business magazine to Thomson Reuters News Service and Black Enterprise Magazine to religious, entertainment and sports-oriented media.
Sitting at the top of his game, Grammy Award winning Chris Bridges used his entrepreneurial instincts to open one of Atlanta’s hottest restaurants proving that business mixed with an adventurous culinary streak can be a delicious and rewarding venture.
With the recent release of her third cookbook, a fourth restaurant on the way and a successful home collection at retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, B. Smith is proving that natural talent and determination are powerful tools for making dreams come true.
Scoring the highest-rated series debut in the Food Network's five-year history of weekend programming, Patrick and Gina Neely are celebrating their success as Memphis' most beloved couple of BBQ. Their show Down Home with the Neelys has received both praises and criticism, but to them it is about real people making real food.
Since winning the third season of Chef Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen, Rock Harper has moved on with his winnings and title to the Italian-themed Terre Verde restaurant at the Green Valley Ranch hotel-casino just minutes from Sin City.