On my Southern Food Road Tour, I asked everyone who would talk to me to name five foods and beverages that are most expressive of “southern food,” and the answers varied a lot more than I thought they would. Louisiana in particular was out there on its own, and some of the answers I had…
Category: Southern Food
Southern Cake Recipes: Hummingbird Cupcakes
Hummingbird Cakes are as Southern as they come. A butter cake that enfolds banana, coconut, pineapple, and pecans, it is topped with cream cheese frosting.
Southern Fusion: Hot Cracklin’ and Radish Sprout Kimchi Salad
Oh my goodness I created a simple Southern fusion salad today, tossing fresh hot cracklin’s with spicy radish-sprout kimchi and perching it atop of a bed of baby spinach leaves lightly dressed with sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. It’s a play on a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing, where instead of ketchup and…
Persimmon, Fall’s Tomato
I can’t believe I’ve never eaten a ripe persimmon before this week. There was a persimmon tree behind one of the houses our family rented when I was growing up, but I must have always been too impatient with it. I’d only ever eaten them puckery. But then this week Alan, my brother, started agitating…
Recipe: Cornbread or Biscuits? Apricot Bread Pudding with Dewar’s Whisky Sauce
I’m going to take a short break from cataloguing the culinary foibles of my pop-up Mardi Gras Dinner at Ratho Farm to write about something that went mostly right that night, the dessert course, Cornbread or Biscuits? Apricot Bread Pudding with Dewar’s Whisky Sauce. The question of whether cornbread or biscuits was more quintessentially Southern came…
Biscuit Recipes from Alabama, Telephone Pioneers of America Chapter No. 34 Cookbook
Mayo Biscuits? I guess if mayonnaise is just eggs and oil, it’s not so completely bizzare to use it as fat for a biscuit. If you try this one, take a pic and send it in, with your recipe review. Tangy Cheddar Biscuits No Old Bay in this recipe, so maybe Red Lobster is safe. But who doesn’t like…
Southern Food Road Trip: Tennessee Holodeck Replies
Memphis, TN – Yesterday and today I’m learning all about smoke and barbecue. I spent half the day yesterday with Helen Miller, the country’s only African American barbecue pitmaster and, according to her customers, the best bar none. (I had to start a second laundry bag for the BBQ clothes!) Pics and video of that tomorrow. My…
Southern Food Road Trip: Days 1&2
Humboldt, TN – Two days and 550 miles into this epic Southern food road trip it’s become clear that finding the time to write about it along the way is going to be the biggest challenge, (knock wood.) This morning it’s happening at 4 am, Keurig-fueled, in the dead silence that comes from being surrounded by tall…
Pickling Practice
Quick pickling is the “put a bird on it” of the culinary world.
