
Hot-Water Corn bread
Essentially, hot-water cornbread is the same as hoecakes, a cornpone that can be traced back to Indian societies in the South and to our Colonial

Essentially, hot-water cornbread is the same as hoecakes, a cornpone that can be traced back to Indian societies in the South and to our Colonial

Slathered with butter and eaten with barbecue, fried fish, or any style of slow-simmered vegetable; crumbled into bowls of pot likker left over from boiled

Such is the traditional menu on any given Monday in homes, cafés, and unpretentious restaurants throughout the Louisiana Delta and in New Orleans. No matter

The array of Southern dishes there was staggering, and none was so luscious as her version of this great Savannah rice specialty bursting with tomatoes.

Basically a specialty of the Louisiana and Mississippi bayous, dirty rice, which derives its name and color from the chicken livers and gizzards that provide

At the Peabody, this unusual grits pudding is normally served with peach slices sautéed in honeyed orange butter. While that’s always an option at home,

This combination of grits and feta cheese is stunning, a dish intended to be served as a main course, with maybe some sliced dried garlic

This dish takes a little time and effort to prepare, but it not only shows the sophisticated role grits can play in modern Southern cookery

This glorious dish is now becoming as fashionable in restaurants all over the country as blackened redfish once was, and God knows the abominable transformations

Do make every effort to obtain stone-ground grits for this dish (if unavailable, use regular, not instant), and watch carefully to make sure the grits


