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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
AWARD-WINNING FOOD TOUR COMPANY, FLAVORS FOOD TOURS, CELEBRATES ONE YEAR IN SAVANNAH
Leslie Wiggins leads tour in Savannah Leslie Wiggins leads tour in Savannah SAVANNAH, GA, May 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Award-winning food tour company, Flavors Food Tours, is celebrating one year since launching its distinctive 'progressive dining with a difference' historic cultural food tours in Savannah, Georgia. Business owner and founder of Flavors Food Tours, Leslie Wiggins, founded the first food tour in the Caribbean: Flavors of San Juan Food and Culture Tours in 2009 and now is celebrating one year since returning to her native Georgia to launch Flavors Food Tours – Savannah. 'We now have six tour guides in the Hostess City which is the perfect place for us to showcase local cuisine from the highest quality restaurants while our tour guides point out the history and culture as we stroll to our next foodie stop,' explains Wiggins. Savannah's premier food tour features a progressive meal, where guests will enjoy courses at multiple foodie places. This is enough for most people to feel comfortably full by the end of the tour. The inclusive price also features one alcoholic beverage or nonalcoholic mocktail. In between sips and bites, the knowledgeable guide will lead the group on a stroll through Georgia's oldest city, providing entertaining stories of Savannah's history and culture. Guests have the option of booking the 'Southern Traditions' Dinner Tour, 'True South' Lunch Tour, or the customizable Private Tour. Each walking tour is about two miles and lasts a duration of three hours. Guests are encouraged to wear proper shoes, clothing, and sun block. 'Our team of tour guides encourage our guests to eat well and be inspired,' comments Wiggins. 'Food feeds the soul and by breaking bread together, people on our tours often comment that it feels like they have spent time with new friends.' Flavors Food Tours is professionally certified by Food Tour Pros and is a member of the World Food Travel Association and the Savannah Chamber of Commerce as well as members and advisors to the Global Food Tourism Association. Committed to safe, sustainable, and environmentally responsible practices, Flavors Food Tours offers a curated experience every time. For more information about Flavors Food Tours – Savannah please visit and follow the organization at @flavorsfoodtours on Facebook and Instagram. To book a tour please call 787-964-2447 or book online at – ENDS – For media inquiries, please contact Lesley Francis at info@ or call 912-417-LFPR (5377). Attachment
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
'Home Turn' shows a side of Daytona you won't see during the Daytona 500
If you're looking to get a sense of what Daytona Beach is actually like ahead of the Daytona 500, you can do it in under 30 minutes instead of booking a trip to Florida. 'Home Turn,' a show hosted by Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee, debuted on NASCAR's YouTube channel on Tuesday. The documentary — available at the top of this post — is about the city and culture of Daytona and was a partnership between NASCAR Studios and Bluefoot Entertainment, the group behind the 'TrueSouth' series on the SEC Network. The show has plenty of nuggets for those who haven't been to Daytona at all or those of us that have been to the area too many times to count. Even Busbee said he learned a lot while filming. 'I'd always known the history of the area, but the way you can draw a literal straight line from the sands at the waterline right to the start-finish line at Daytona International Speedway, both literally and metaphorically, is pretty great — the same drive that pushed men to rip down the beach at 300 miles an hour a century ago pushes them to claim the lead coming out of Turn 4 on the final lap today,' Busbee said. 'Plus, I learned why DIS is shaped the way it is ... there used to be a dog track beyond what is now Turn 1, and so they created the tri-oval so they could have both the size and the banking they wanted. The dog track is long gone, but the tri-oval shape remains.' Daytona is a city known for NASCAR, of course, but also its role as a host for MTV's 'Spring Break' for many years. The area is trying to get past that now, and like any community looking to remake its image, it's not an easy process. In a conversation near the end of the show, lifelong Daytona resident and Daytona Beach News-Journal writer Ken Willis notes that Daytona is caught in the past while also attempting to modernize itself. It was easy to see how that situation applies to NASCAR too. The stock car series has experienced a lot of turnover in the past decade as the boom years of the 2000s get further and further away. Its new crop of drivers aren't on the star paths the likes of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were on, and NASCAR is attempting to figure out how to navigate its new and much more niche place in the sports world. 'It's a great connection, because both NASCAR and Daytona Beach had such mountainous highs in the past, and those highs cast a long shadow," Busbee said. "Both of them are having to adjust to new tastes — people aren't as interested in massing at a beach and sleeping 10 to a hotel room for Spring Break anymore, and people aren't as interested in sitting for four-plus hours to watch racing any more. Plus, you always romanticize your past over the allegedly less-colorful present, and that's what both NASCAR and Daytona Beach have to contend with — people's memories versus current reality. Both are in the process of reinventing themselves, and both are now recognizing that what worked in the past won't work to carry them into the future.'
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Yahoo
My pick for Mississippi book of the year. Here is why
These general interest columns are essentially reactions to news events, which is standard operating procedure in the industry for this work. I haven't written about many books over time. It's hard not to have something to say, however, about Mississippi's book of the year — perhaps the book of the year nationally, one that's a projected winner of multi publishing industry honors for 2024. That's "The Barn: The Secret History Of A Murder In Mississippi," of course. What other book could it be? There's simply not another. Clarksdale-native Wright Thompson is the author of this crown jewel that profoundly explores the nightmarish murder of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in 1955 in rural Mississippi Delta environs. The author is a senior writer for the ESPN television network. He's also a producer on the "True South" show on the SEC Network. He's the one with that deeply Southern and gravelly, educated voice working alongside the Georgia-bred, sophisticated host, the James Beard-winning food writer John T. Edge. 'Barn' brings full bore public notice to a structure in Sunflower County in which young Till was murdered after an alleged incident at a country store in the hamlet of Money in Leflore County. It's well established that Roy Bryant, whose wife, Carolyn, was Till's supposed whistling target in the store, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, led a gang of vigilantes who later snatched Till from a cousin's home and took him for retribution to the barn in question before dumping his savagely torn body into the nearby Tallahatchie River. 'The blood on the floor of the barn was covered in cottonseed, soaking up the proof,' Thompson wrote, chillingly. Bryant and Milam were acquitted of the murder in a farcical trial held in the Tallahatchie County courthouse in Sumner, transformed in 2012 into the Emmett Till Interpretive Center and now linked to a new federal monument dedicated to Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's murder is widely recognized as a major impetus of the campaign for human and voting rights that soon thereafter burst wide open across the South. Said Thompson: 'Till's murder gave powerful fuel to the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, and his symbolic importance has only grown since. When Americans gather to protest racial violence, someone almost certainly carries his picture, held high like a cross, no name needed. His hopeful, innocent face delivers the message…' The writer's storytelling of a teenager's murder over basically nothing is phenomenal in scope, Herculean in effort and perpetual in certitude. His weaving together of the rascals involved in this lawlessness with others on its perimeter (there's plenty of them) and his portraiture of the times accurately reflect 1950s Mississippi. Gloria C. Armstrong returned home to run the We2gether Creating Change nonprofit in Drew and was elected District 5 supervisor of Sunflower County. Her parents, Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter, led the family's integration of the Drew public schools in 1965. Armstrong asks a question through Thompson that will hit readers in different ways, depending on whether one is commiserative toward Till and his family or whether they remain defiant-to-change and have wearied of hearing of the murder over the almost 70 years since. 'Why bring it up?' And, indeed, 'Why did it happen to him?' Thompson wrote. 'Which is a way of asking, 'Why did a bright, hopeful child get murdered for whistling in 1955. What about the intersection of Emmett and the Mississippi Delta at that specific time led to his death?' The attitudes and intentions are why we bring it up, to interrogate the present to see what of the past remains. Because our present day potential for violence is alive and undiminished.' — Mac Gordon, a native of McComb, is a retired newspaperman. He can be reached at macmarygordon@ This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: My pick for Mississippi book of the year
