I keep the record in Georgia's courts, write books about my family and the road, build Mnemo for court reporters, and publish it all through Wanderlight Press.
Before the courtroom I spent more than twenty years in professional kitchens. For nearly eight years I've written about food, travel and family at The Constant Epicurean. I live in Covington, Georgia, with my wife and our three daughters.
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Family, the open road, Vietnam, the kitchen, and life at the edge of the singularity. Every one of them published by Wanderlight Press.
How We Learned to Eat (and Built the World Along the Way)
The Accidental Civilization, Book One
A popular history of food, and how feeding ourselves built the modern world by accident, told from village kitchens in Vietnam, stovetops in Georgia and twenty years on the line.
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A Memoir
In March 2020, as the world locked its doors, I landed in Da Nang on a nearly empty plane to rejoin my wife, Diem, and our two young daughters. What followed was twenty months inside a country that sealed itself off from the world.
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A 10,000-Mile Family Odyssey Across the American West
In October 2022, over egg rolls at a shopping-mall P.F. Chang's outside Las Vegas, Diem and I planned a 10,000-mile road trip across the American West with our three daughters. Twenty-eight days later we came home through the bayous of Louisiana with the engine still running.
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The Photographs
My own pictures from Vietnam, set beside passages from the memoir, beginning on a nearly empty flight into Da Nang in March 2020.
The Photographs
Eighty-four of our family's own photographs from the road, paired with passages from the memoir, from the first morning to the last mile home.
A Memoir from the Edge of the Singularity
Part memoir, part reckoning. It asks how we live inside the future, whole, awake, and answerable for what we sign.
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A Simple Guide to the Next Money
Bitcoin the way I'd explain it across the kitchen table, in plain English, with real numbers and honest charts, including the crashes and the mistake I made myself.
Coming October 31, 2026
And after twenty years at the stove, yes, there's a cookbook on its way.
I've served Georgia's Superior, State and Juvenile Courts as a court reporter, and Mnemo is the court reporting software I'm building, by a court reporter for court reporters. It takes a case from takedown to the finished transcript on the reporter's own laptop, with the reporter's name on the certificate. One case file carries the whole job from stage to stage, and nothing is ever filed without you.
Visit mnemosuite.comFor nearly eight years I've written about food, travel and family at The Constant Epicurean, stories from the road, from Vietnam to Georgia and across the American West. Beneath an Endless Sky first appeared there, one day at a time. The whole site has just been rebuilt, and every story is waiting.
Before the courtroom I was an award-winning culinary artist, with more than twenty years in professional kitchens, including executive chef roles with Fifth Group Restaurants and Morrison Healthcare.
Read The Constant EpicureanThe great American expeditions tend to begin with a president. … Ours began with egg rolls.Beneath an Endless Sky, from the preface
Dennis W. Davis