Chicken & Waffles on Tate Street

  CHICKEN WAFFLES.....you now have my attention Sir!! That was my reaction when I heard of a new restaurant here in Greensboro last weekend and I had to venture out and check it out, because thats what I do.

Located at 401 Walker Avenue, right in the heart of the downtown UNCG campus, lies a quant little restaurant that has been opened for all of 4 months. Being new to that area, I am  Guilford-Man myself, I had to get out there and check it out with the quickness. When I located it I was pleasantly surprised once stepping inside and meeting the co-owner Jean Wilson as she manned the front counter taking orders from the myriad of customers that were in line. Amongst the hustle and bustle you can tell that she is full of personality and when it is my turn to order the personality exuded itself the minute she smiled. Standing all of 5 feet 2 inches she possesses a much larger persona but has the tact and personalization to make you feel like you are her only customer. EVER! She took a few moments during a slow time to answer a few questions in reference to her business and I was happy as a clam at the end of the conversation. She mentioned that she opened the restaurant in an eloquent story that also included her love for her husbands mother whom had passed away recently. Always wanting to own a restaurant, she died before she was able to make this dream a reality, along comes Jean and her husband, Renaldo Wilson to fulfill that wish right here in NC. 

The restaurant has a specialty of down home cooking and they do it to a rare form. The best items on the menu range from fried fish, chili-cheese fries and the pinnacle, the chicken and waffles. I had to get my hands on the chicken and waffles and was so pleased when I did that I felt like getting up from the table, going behind the counter and smacking Renaldo AND Jean because they didn’t tell me that it was going to be sooooo good. The very generous portions that they include on the plates are from the days of old before establishments started portion controlling the adult plates so that they mirrored Kids-Meals. The chicken and waffle plate comes to the table piping hot with the oversized waffle anchoring the three massive sized chicken wings that are plated and displayed in a three piece triangular shape. There is nothing bad that I could say and less that I wanted to say once I poured the syrup and sliced into my first bite. The food is prepared in such a meticulous manner that you almost don’t want to disturb the picturesque plate as it is served to you. Savory food without the usual over-salting that you typically find in soul food or down south restaurants was a welcomed surprise.

Opening the restaurant where they did has a backstory that coincides with where these Chicago natives are from. The prior restaurant in the space was called ‘Windy City” so they knew when the realtor explained to them that they had found gold and would be planting their roots here to make Moms dream come true. Being able to spread their genuine love and kindness thru the joy of food the Wilsons are a class act and have one of the best up and coming eateries in the Greensboro area. 

GEANA’S RESTAURANT

401 Waker Avenue

Greensboro, NC 

336-275-2688

Promiscuity For Real

This week in Psych we read an article by Frederick Elliston about promiscuity and it started me to thinking about some of the references in it. The writer professes that there are rules to promiscuity and who can engage in it and I felt that he couldn't have been more wrong. He boasts that homosexuals and lesbians CANNOT be promiscuous because according to his scale in order to be promiscuous one has to engage in sex with a person of the other sex. Now, I have Straight friends as well as Homosexual, Lesbian and Bi friends and regardless of how respectful they are of their relationship or not when they mess around multiple times they are just as promiscuous as a straight person. I don't think the reading is as intelligent as we are as people today. The more I read of some of these reading of old the more I'm glad that I am a person of the more forward-thinking-age. Had I been alive during the times that these types of thinking were the norm I would have been even more of an outcast than I felt when I was a teen. Reasoning: I don't have an issue with promiscuity because I think that sex is wonderful and SHOULD be explored before and depending on the situation DURING marriage. As long as the people involved in the relationship know and then agree that sleeping with others, whether as a couple or by their own single hookups, is ok then whats the problem (COMMUNICATION; Thanks Hannah). All involved are happy and they are being fulfilled sexually. We all are different and sometimes that love that we have for a mate isn't enough o make the sex all that you wish it could be.

I really feel that promiscuity is such a nasty biased word to describe a natural act regardless of how many partners one has. Variety is the spice of life and without being able to enjoy an active sex life how can one experience that variety? College life is the perfect time to experiment and do the sexual research that allows us to find out what we like and dislike. But reading articles like the one mentioned above could cause students to feel negatively about their sexuality and thus cause them to shut down and not be able to enjoy an active sex life because they may soon draw the moniker of being promiscuous or a hoe or in the situation of men....a stud (I'll be back to discuss that comparison soon)!

https://moodle.guilford.edu/file.php?file=%2F4962%2FElliston-InDefenseOfPromiscuity.pdf

Greek Mythology Myth or True Love Story

You know, in my limited past with stories and classes involving Greek Gods and the their omnipotent power I have not been much of a fan or believer. I recently had the pleasure of reading The Speech of Aristophanes and the act of Zeus splitting bodies from two headed four legged creatures to what we see in form now. The resigning behind that was so that the split forms would want to be re-matched with the other-half and live happily ever after. I disagreed the first few times that I read it but then after reading, highlighting and then reading a few more times I then started to REALLY feel the story and what the meat and potatoes of it were. What a beautiful story it is that the forms were split and then long for each other until they and reunited again so as to fit all of the old cliches of "being whole again", "completing me" or being back with their "better or other-half". I loved the story and although many in the discussion didn't agree with my perception I think it's because some of them are younger and just haven't rationalized the thought of how good it feels to be with omen that is TRUELY your other half. I don't mean that you walk around for life in a daze trying to find your other half feeling incomplete because thats just not realistic. We all are individuals and thus have our own dreams and desires but in the long run, those dreams and desires feel a helluva lot more enjoyable when you are able to share them with someone you love, someone that loves you back and someone that you can build and share a great life with when the both of you have learned how To Love and escalated your thinking to the top of Loves Ladder.

http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sym.htm