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Category Archives: Southern Food

Buttering Up

December 14, 2009

Peppermint flavoring, almond extract, gooey candied fruit, thick dark molasses, perfumey cardamom … the list could go mouth-wateringly on and …

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Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

December 7, 2009

Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, …

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Jane Carson’s Colonial Virginia Cookery: Procedures, Equipment, and Ingredients in Colonial Cooking

December 4, 2009

Colonial Virginia Cookery: Procedures, Equipment, and Ingredients in Colonial Cooking, by Jane Carson (1968, reprinted 1985). Filled with the kind …

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Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part II

December 3, 2009

Dey ‘s a-wokin’ in de qua’tahs a-preparin’ fu’ de feas’, So de little pigs is feelin’ kind o’ shy. De …

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Counting Beans: A Soupçon of History

June 26, 2009

Not too long ago, I looked at the messy pile of one-pound bags of beans in my pantry and knew …

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Moonshine

June 17, 2009

Living as I do in the heart of moonshine [white lightning] country, I just about dropped the cookbook when I …

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West African Origins of Southern Cooking

March 28, 2009

Nearly all writers on Southern food agree that African slaves influenced the evolution of Southern food. Here’s a video of …

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A Story of Shrimp

March 26, 2009

Every night the roar of that “hog” outside announced her, foretelling the laughing and the clunk-clunk of feet plodding upstairs …

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The Cross Creek of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings

March 25, 2009

No longer a well-known writer, Pulitzer-Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserves more attention. Author of the popular coming-of-age novel, The …

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Another Fish in the Sea: Mullet

January 30, 2009

Of all the nurslings of the sea, mullets have the most gentle and just disposition, harming neither each other nor …

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