Back in December, there was a devastating fire at Keegan Filion Farm down in Walterboro. This farm provides a lot of produce and meat to restaurants in the area that support local farmers, and in keeping with that support, many of the restaurants in Charleston held a “barn raiser” yesterday to raise money to help […]
Thank you again for all of the entries for our recipe contest- they were amazing! Our winner is Sally who sent in Chocolate Bread Pudding. It is light, chocolate deliciousness and everything you want in a dessert! The picture I took of it when I made it for our Le Creuset judge did not turn […]
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 and many styles of […]
Thanks so much to the wonderful site Vegan Bliss from the Organic Goddess – promoting Veganism in Atlanta – this is new southern baking! (originally published March 2002, in Co-options, the newsletter of Sevanada Natural Foods Cooperative in Atlanta, GA. http://www.sevananda.coop ) I come from a long, proud line of biscuit makers. My mother’s mother […]
Pecan-Cornmeal Butter Cakes The New York Times April 20 Dining section has a great story about the flowering of restaurants in Durham, North Carolina (Durham, a Tobacco Town, Turns to Local Food). When I lived there in the 1970s, the food was great, but the range of cookery was nowhere as bountiful as it is […]
As far as we’re concerned, there is nothing better than Southern style baking. That means breads, biscuits, pies, cakes and cookies. The South is a big place, and its foodways have influenced people all over America – all over the world for that matter. While we will celebrate traditional Southern baking in a big way […]