Nikki Seaman is an Atlanta female entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Freestyle Snacking. She’s making olives sexy again. Freestyle currently is disrupting the olives industry and is a low carb, low calorie snack.
There are so many things to do this spring around the South. With this list, you can indulge both sides of your personality—go a little high brow one weekend and down home the next.
I don’t know about you, but new hotels get me excited about exploration and experiencing new things. Across the South,
Don Purcell is the owner of the best new jewelry store in Atlanta. His eponymous shop is called Don Purcell and peeks out over the outdoor dining area at Le Bilboquet in Buckhead Village District. It’s prime real estate. But it’s a far cry from small town Ridgeway.
I put together a tasty list of the top 10 dishes in Atlanta that go from down home to high brow and back again.
Here are the top 10 blogs of 2021 on Two-Sided Southern. It’s a fabulous mix of profiles, recipes, restaurant rounds ups, reviews and more. It’s about being upscale and down home. Five-star and dive bar.
At first glance, Preston Wilson Jr. looks like a fashion designer, Atlanta influencer or creative director of an ad agency. In other words, he looks like he does something fabulous for a living. And he does. Chalk that up to his fierce sense of style and an aura of a refined Southern gentleman. But ask him about his career and you may be surprised to discover this dapper Atlanta man is not a right-brained creative. He’s an engineer and scientist.
Jennifer Sutton moved to the South 16 years ago from Lorain, Ohio. Thank goodness. “It’s the international city,” she says.
Two-Sided Southern is here to help you with a few southern-made gift ideas to help get your friends there a little faster. Here are a a few high-end but still down home—gift ideas to help you get your friends and family the perfect present. They’re at different price points, for all different kinds of folks and all inspire joy. With the holidays approaching, Southern-made gifts always have terrific stories and talented artisans behind the work.
Yonah Mountain Vineyards in Georgia is as pretty as any plot in Napa Valley or the Loire Valley. It’s arguably the best Georgia winery. The octagonal tasting room (the only one I’ve ever seen), sprawling patios and event venues are luxurious. Yet the staff is still down home and friendly. I think that comes from top down.
