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Book Recommendation: Southern Cocktails: Dixie Drinks, Party Potions, and Classic Libations

I love a good cocktail book that has photos in it, and I especially love cocktail books that combine recipes for wonderful snacks that can be served with them. Southern Cocktails: Dixie Drinks, Party ...

Guess What Garden Treat Is In the Jar!

Tanya Spacek of Lawrence, Kansas sent us these fabulous photos of her past weekends adventures in canning. Can you guess what's in the jars? It's something Southerners might recognize more easily, b...

How To Make Sweet Tea

Before you Southern readers start commenting, "Are you kidding me? Who doesn't know how to make sweet tea?" please hear me out. I am Florida-born and Georgia-raised, and when moved to California, one...

Recipe Recommendation: Hot Boiled Peanuts

I'm originally from Georgia, and recently returned from a month-long visit with my relatives. As soon as I get my feet back on some red clay, I immediately start seeking out my favorite Southern deli...

Ingredient Spotlight: Vidalia Onions

We snatch up these sweet onions any time we see them at the market. Do you know where they're grown? And what the town's official mascot is named? Read on......

Guess Whose Kitchen This Is...

We'll give you a couple of hints. It's in Mississippi, and it belonged to a writer. Read on for a quote from the writer's memoir, a childhood memory of a full moon and a favorite food......

Southern Dilemma: Homemade Rolls or Sister Schubert's?

We are going to try to keep our cool here. But the sight of that plastic-wrapped aluminum tin of yeast rolls to the left just about sends us over the edge. We can't buy them in New York (although we h...

Sense of Place: Southern Food and Cuisine

The culture of southern cooking is all about hospitality and abundance - so pull up a chair, pile your plate high, and dig in!...

Sense of Place: Southern Flavors and Ingredients

We only have a few regions left on our culinary survey of the United States, and Southerners will be quick to point out that we've been saving one the best for last. And they'd be right! The foods tha...

Is Sweet Tea Going Commercial?

We've noticed that sweet tea, that classic symbol of southern hospitality, has been cropping up in some unexpected places. McDonald's has been rolling out their Mickey D's Sweet Tea nation-wide over ...

Recipe: Nathalie Dupree's Hush Puppies

We just posted a great video about Hush Puppies, along with a similar story by Nathalie Dupree, known as the originator of the New Southern Cooking movement. Here, she shares her recipe for these lit...

Hush Puppy... Hush Puppy

. While touring a cemetery in New Orleans a few weeks ago, I overheard Ray Reiker, a wine auctioneer from Alabama and a real southern gentleman, telling our tour guide the origin of the Hush Pupp...