Recipe file: Bess Eakes' biscuits

Recipe file: Bess Eakes' biscuits

Ag Illustrated usually doesn’t specify particular brands in recipes, but Bess Eakes’ biscuit recipe is an exception. “My mother used White Lily flour, my grandmother used White Lily, and it’s the only flour I’ve ever used for biscuits,” says Mrs. Eakes, wife of Auburn...
Recipe file: Bess Eakes' biscuits

An empty spot

Keever reflects on role as Toomer’s oaks spokesman by JAMIE CREAMER The first full week of May brought a return to normalcy in Gary Keever’s life—only it didn’t feel normal. Not yet, anyway, because for the first time in almost two and a half years, the historic oaks...