The South Will Rise

I am not sure what is better than waking up on a crisp summer morning in the mountains to homemade cracked pepper and cheddar cheese biscuits.  I found a wonderful recipe in the Charleston City Paper from Robert F. Moss who has a fantastic blog!  We have tweaked it a little bit to add the cracked [...]

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There’s been a lot of sweet stuff on here lately and so it’s high time for some savory. Kim Morgan writes about food on her blog A Yankee In a Southern Kitchen and here is yet another brilliant Southern delight from her long list: Blue Cheese Pecan Bread (Adapted by Kim Morgan from Martha Hall [...]

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Knoxville’s first annual International Biscuit Festival recently wrapped up. So, how did it turn out? Let’s see what KnoxNews had to say: Biscuit Festival has big turnout By Mike Blackerby Judging by the turnout, East Tennesseans sure love their biscuits and all of the accoutrements that go with the delectable flour-based discs. Saturday’s first International [...]

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I am enamored by Regina Charboneau‘s recipes. Regina Charboneau is the owner of Twin Oaks Bed & Breakfast in Natchez, Mississippi. She is the author of Regina’s Table at Twin Oaks. Mississippi Hushpuppies (From Regina’s Food section in The Atlantic) Here is Regina’s recipe for the treasured Southern dish. You can add what you like [...]

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Bill Neal’s Hush Puppies Bill Neal tremendously important to the revival of Southern cooking in recent decades.  He co-founded and ran La Residence and Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, NC, and wrote several cookbooks.  He died far too young at 41, but has left a lasting legacy that extends to all regions of the South [...]

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“Grazing is a state of being in the South. In fact, many of our community cookbooks from the twentieth century are front-heavy, with so many more hors d’oeuvre and finger-food recipes than main courses (or even desserts) that it makes you wonder why we even bother with the rest of the meal.  It’s actually plain [...]

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Creating the perfect biscuit is a theoretical question with as many answers as there are scientists racing toward finding a unified theory of Everything. With Knoxville’s first International Biscuit Festival on the horizon (June 4th and 5th), featuring a biscuit bake-off, this blog would be amiss if it didn’t feature a favorite classic biscuit recipe [...]

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If you’re into southern baking enough to be here on this blog, odds are you may not need a primer on southern food, but just in case you want one anyway the good folks over at Southern Foodways have one all wrapped up for you: Southern Food Primer John Egerton writes, “Within the South itself, [...]

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Well, you knew there had to be a southern food museum somewhere, and there is! A great one! Celebrate the food culture of the South by checking out The Southern Food & Beverage Museum online, or by visiting them in person in New Orleans! The Southern Food and Beverage Museum is a nonprofit living history [...]

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“Southern baking is not only a way of survival: it is an expression of love, empathy, and celebration. Food brings families together at mealtime, celebrates the gathering of communities at traditional “dinner on the grounds,” consoles friends when a loved one dies, and offers topic for conversation at holidays. It represents the resourcefulness and ties [...]

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