James Villas says that even fine dining restaurants are discovering the South's culinary traditions, and experimenting more and more with fried foods. (LexnGer/Flickr) James Villas was the long time ...

James Villas, an author of numerous cookbooks and magazine articles who staunchly defended his homegrown Southern cooking and waged an uncivil war against voguish gustatory gimmickry, died Aug. 17 at ...

Holidaymakers hit by the sudden closure of James Villas have been given another lifeline. Europe and Florida specialist Solmar Villas is offering customers the chance to rebook their villa holidays.

James Villas never had a lightly held opinion, whether it was the superiority of the cooking of France or the best way to cut a biscuit. A native of Charlotte who left as a Rhodes Scholar, he hit the ...

In this exuberant parade of pork fat, there is no doubting the flap copy when it states that Villas, former food editor for Town & Country, has been “beguiled by bacon since he was a boy.” However, ...

A book about ground meat. It might not seem that appealing at first, but as this cookbook points out, aren’t many of the world’s favorite comfort foods based on ground meats of some sort or another?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran food writer James Villas likes to say he was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a cast-iron skillet in his hand. In "Southern Fried: More than 150 recipes for crab ...

A former fatty adjusts to life in the svelte lane in Villas's agreeable latest. Loretta Crawford has dropped nearly 100 pounds since having her stomach banded, a decision hastened by her husband's ...