
Kellie Walton
Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Modern South Magazine
Travel and Food Writer at Freelance
freelance travel & food writer 📝✈️
Articles
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1 week ago |
modernsouth.co | Kellie Walton
As a tenured food writer, the biggest lesson I’ve learned in my career is that taste and favorites are subjective: my must-order dish at a restaurant could be average to a friend, and ingredients like goat cheese and olives may be beloved to many but repulsive to me.
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1 week ago |
modernsouth.co | Kellie Walton
Featured image: Visit Athens GAPride Month is celebrated every June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Riots—an uprising in response to police raids at the Stonewall Inn in New York City that catalyzed the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. What began as an act of resistance has grown into a nationwide celebration of love, identity, visibility, and progress.
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2 weeks ago |
modernsouth.co | Kellie Walton
There’s something deeply comforting about a handwritten recipe card, especially when it’s been folded, splattered, and lovingly used for decades. Over time, dishes evolve from just meals to cherished memories, and those worn recipe pages become a true treasure. At Blakeford Senior Life, a premier senior living community with multiple campuses in Nashville for over 30 years, residents are dishing on their cherished family recipes that connect generations through the language of food.
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3 weeks ago |
opentable.com | Kellie Walton
Well before Germantown became a bonafide restaurant hotspot, the legendary Rolf and Daughters in Nashville was among the places setting the groundwork for all the stellar restaurants that would follow. “I remember when we first opened, the landscape of the dining culture was so different than it is now,” the restaurant’s director of operations Shane O’Brien says. “You picked your pasta and then your sauce and protein, but it took some time to get people to trust us and what we do.
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4 weeks ago |
modernsouth.co | Kellie Walton
In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked some of Nashville’s most beloved chefs and restaurateurs to reflect on the women who shaped their culinary journey. Whether it was a grandmother’s ritual of slow-simmered mole, a mother’s insistence on cleanliness, or a family tradition of stirring the perfect roux, their stories speak to the power of matriarchal influence in the kitchen.
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