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 ...

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 has officially stopped taking any new reservations and plans to close. Parent company Awaze plans to shut down the brand, with 40 jobs at risk. It offered villa holidays at 600 properties ...

“I am a poundcake fanatic,” said James Villas in Saveur. I finally came to that realization while carefully weighing the eggs to be used in the batter. It was important to use exactly 1 pound each of ...

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 ...

With over a dozen cookbooks and two James Beard awards under his belt, Villas weighs in with another well-crafted work, this one focusing on the oily offerings to be found in his favorite part of 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...