Buttering Up
Peppermint flavoring, almond extract, gooey candied fruit, thick dark molasses, perfumey cardamom … the list could go mouth-wateringly on and …
Category Archives: Southern Food
Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, …
Jane Carson’s Colonial Virginia Cookery: Procedures, Equipment, and Ingredients in Colonial Cooking
Colonial Virginia Cookery: Procedures, Equipment, and Ingredients in Colonial Cooking, by Jane Carson (1968, reprinted 1985). Filled with the kind …
Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part II
Dey ‘s a-wokin’ in de qua’tahs a-preparin’ fu’ de feas’, So de little pigs is feelin’ kind o’ shy. De …
Counting Beans: A Soupçon of History
Not too long ago, I looked at the messy pile of one-pound bags of beans in my pantry and knew …
Moonshine
Living as I do in the heart of moonshine [white lightning] country, I just about dropped the cookbook when I …
West African Origins of Southern Cooking
Nearly all writers on Southern food agree that African slaves influenced the evolution of Southern food. Here’s a video of …
A Story of Shrimp
Every night the roar of that “hog” outside announced her, foretelling the laughing and the clunk-clunk of feet plodding upstairs …
The Cross Creek of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
No longer a well-known writer, Pulitzer-Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserves more attention. Author of the popular coming-of-age novel, The …
Another Fish in the Sea: Mullet
Of all the nurslings of the sea, mullets have the most gentle and just disposition, harming neither each other nor …
