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I’m a producer for blogs and social media at National Public Radio. In the past, I’ve worked at Ball State University on the NewsLink Indiana multi-platform news program and at CNN.com as a writer, producer and award-winning senior editor.
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Thanks so much on the article about pimento cheese! I just found out that some of my “old” family used to love this “spreadable cheese with a bunch of ‘stuff’ added in”. I googled it and found your article.
My late Father-in-law was a WWII POW with a wounded & captured war correspondent named Wright Bryan. Any relation?
I just came across your (fine) article on pimento cheese. I grew up in Atlanta, and on Winn Dixie’s “Palmetto Farms” brand, which is now sadly discontinued, along with most Winn Dixie stores. If you Google the proper terms, you’ll find evidence of plenty of ex-pats dying to recreate the classic Winn-Dixie Palmetto Farms recipe (which I believe I remember using American Cheese rather than cheddar, and little or no garlic.)
I’ve contacted Winn Dixie on this, and they couldn’t help. I’m currently a TV/Film composer out in LA who has an unreasonable obsession with finding out the story of this apparent Winn Dixie brand, and trying to resurrect the recipe for the benefit of posterity, as it looks like it may be lost to history. I’m betting that somewhere, the actual recipe is ultimately recoverable, but even if not, a good followup story is in there somewhere.
At any rate, you have my email, so let me know if interested.
-Davin
@Rob Mobley
My late grandfather, Tony Lumpkin, was good friends with and escaped POW camp with Wright Bryan. Mr. Bryan made several notations in my grandfather’s POW diary. What was your father-in-law’s name?
Like so many others, I was brought up in Wendell, North Carolina on Palmetto Farms pimento cheese from Winn-Dixie in Zebulon, North Carolina. Since the Winn-Dixie stores closed, I have not been able to find their delectable pimento cheese anywhere. I run into friends who voice similar concerns real often. Is it available in other stores? If so, where? If not, which pimento cheese comes closest to Palmetto Farms, & which stores carry it.
Hello, Im Juana, journalist from Colombia. Im doing a MA degree in
Communication Management and Public Relation at Metropolitan
University in London.
At the moment, Im writting my dissertation, my topic is “The
effects of the digital age in the practice of the journalism”.
Im wondering if I can contact you to ask you some questions about
the topic.
I look forward to hearing from you.