southern fried catfish - Linda's b'day choice

Written By Robin Wade

southern fried catfish Two year's ago, planning Linda's round numbered birthday celebration, I asked her where she wanted to dine.  She chose one of her fav's - Joe's Stone Crabs in Miami Beach.  This year, we saved a few bucks, when Linda chose Taylor's Restaurant, down the road in Russellville, Al.  Mrs. Taylor starts cooking at 4 each morning, and to Linda, tastes exactly like her mom's southern delicacies.

Everything is great at Taylor's, including this scrumptious southern fried catfish. 

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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