Cabbage and Black-Eyed Peas, Oh My! An Easy New Year’s Dish with a Long History
Yes, I know, you’re overwhelmed with preparations for Christmas. If you’re like me, you’re still trying to come up with …
Tag Archives: Southern cooking
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: The Other Mrs. (Abby) Fisher
Before M. F. K. Fisher, sometimes known as plain Mrs. Fisher, there was Mrs. Abby Fisher. And Abby Fisher’s personage …
Idylls of Cuisine, #73
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Buttering Up
Peppermint flavoring, almond extract, gooey candied fruit, thick dark molasses, perfumey cardamom … the list could go mouth-wateringly on and …
Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, …
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 …
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 …
Hog and Hominy: Soul Food From Africa to America, by Frederick Douglass Opie
Several books on African-American cooking tempt me right now, all brilliant in their own way. See Building Houses Out of …
