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Pineapple Sorghum Cake

This delicious cake recipe comes from Mark and Sherry Guenther of the Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill.

Best Sorghum Cookies

This cookie recipe comes from the back of a Kentucky sorghum can. They are soft, chewy, and freeze very well.

Sorghum Molasses Pie

This is an adaptation of an old Appalachian recipe. While similar to Shoo Fly Pie, is does have a slightly different flavor profile.

Kale Salad With Sorghum Vinaigrette

This sorghum recipe is from chef Mike Lata of Fig in Charleston, S.C. and will work with just about any green salad.

The Elvis

This was “The King” Elvis Presley’s favorite sandwich.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Flautas

Did you know astronauts prefer their peanut butter and jelly in tortillas instead of bread?

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

This recipe is for the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Krispy Kreme Bacon Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich

While this sandwich was originally made using Krispy Kreme doughnuts, feel free to enjoy it using your favorite brand of doughnut.

The Grilled Cheese: America’s Favorite Sandwich

We’ve all heard the popular story of how in 1762 a hungry John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, ordered some meat stuffed between two pieces of bread in order to continue playing a game of cards. The idea caught on and the sandwich was born. But it would be some 160 years later, with the advent […]

The Francesca Grilled Cheese

With fresh mozzarella, pepperroni and grilled shiitake mushrooms, this sandwich is like the Mona Lisa of grilled cheese.

Grilled Goat Cheese Sandwiches with Fig and Honey

These are equally good for breakfast or dinner.

Oooey-Gooey In & Out Grilled Cheese

This twist on the classic grilled cheese, with its sharp, crispy texture, is one that cheese lovers are sure to enjoy.

Basic Grilled Cheese Sandwich

This classic grilled cheese is a blank canvas for your creativeness.

A Tip of the Glass to American Whiskey

The distillation of whiskey in this country dates back to the arrival of European farmers, especially those from Ireland and Scotland, who brought with them the skills and knowledge necessary for producing spirits from whatever grains were available. However, beverages produced by these homemade distilleries were for self consumption only and perhaps a few friends […]

Jim Beam Fruit Punch

This whiskey fruit punch has a bit of a sophisticated touch due to the usage of champagne as the sparkling ingredient.

Tennessee Whiskey Pork Chops

The sauce in this recipe, enlivened with cider vinegar, cayenne, brown sugar, and vanilla, adds a delicious smoky, yet mellow flavor to the chops.

Bourbon Pecan Pie

This recipe combines two of the South’s favorite ingredients– pecans and bourbon.

Bourbon Peach Cobbler

This Peach Cobbler has a bourbon spiked fresh peach filling topped with buttery and flaky dough.

Lynchburg Lemonade

This popular drink can also be made into a great summer party punch.

Vieux Carré

An almost forgotten classic cocktail that was invented in 1938 by Walter Bergeron, the head bartender at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans.

Pawpaws: America’s Forgotten Fruit

The pawpaw is the largest edible tree fruit native to North America and indigenous to the temperate woodlands of the eastern United States.

Weiner On a Stick, Battered, Deep Fried: A DOG-gone Great Idea

Probably the most perfect rendition of street food ever created in this nation is the humble corn dog. After all, what could be more convenient to someone taking a stroll than a wiener impaled on a stick, dipped into a thick batter, and deep fried? The origin for this all-American fast food dates back to […]

Mac and Cheese: America’s Favorite Comfort Food

The first known recipe for a macaroni and cheese casserole was recorded as far back as thirteenth century Italy. In the medieval cookbook Liber de Coquina, the anonymous author describes layering sheets of lasagne with powdered spices and cheese (likely parmesan) of choice. This recipe (called de lasanis), while certainly not the same as the […]

Pawpaw Bread

This wonderful fruit bread is made from the largest edible fruit native to North America.

Pawpaw Pie

Pawpaw is indigenous to the U.S. with a taste is similar to banana and makes a wonderful pie.

Pawpaw Preserves

Pawpaw preserves are extremely versatile and makes an excellent topping for ice cream and yogurt.

President Ronald Reagan’s Mac and Cheese

President Ronald Reagan’s favorite food was macaroni and cheese.

Fannie Farmer’s Classic Baked Macaroni and Cheese

This Macaroni & Cheese recipe appears in the 1946 edition of Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook, and is probably the best recipe ever written for this wondrful comfort food. Please Note: CHEAP CHEESE will give you BLAND, FLAVORLESS dish. Recipe Makes 4 Servings Whatcha Need: 1 package (8 ounce) macaroni 4 Tablespoons butter 4 […]

Old-Fashioned Macaroni and Cheese

This tasty casserole can be served as a main dish or side dish.

Gumbo: The Official Cuisine of Louisiana

Gumbo is generally thought to derive its name from the word kingomb, meaning okra in the West African dialect of Bantu . . .

Tooker’s Seafood Gumbo

This is the gumbo Poppy Tooker used to defeat Bobby Flay in a Gumbo Throwdown.

Classic Chicken Gumbo

An excellent option if you’re looking for authentic yet uncomplicated Louisiana-style soup.

Disneyland Corn Dogs

This is recipe is for the corn dogs served at Disneyland theme parks.

Corn Puppies

This recipe is by Andria Scott Hurst from Southern Living (June 1997).

Corn Dogs

Try this hot dog on a stick. A great alternative to the dog in a bun, but just as delicious.

Frito Pie: Born, Bred and Loved in Texas

During the 1930s, in his search for a tastier tortilla that wouldn’t get stale so quickly, Charles Elmer Doolin (better known as C. E.) recalled a chip made by Gustavo Olguin, a Mexican native for whom he worked a short time as a fry cook. Gustavo’s fritos (meaning "little fried things") were made from masa […]

America’s Favorite Sandwich: The Hamburger

Exactly when and by whom the hamburger was invented seems to depend on who is telling the story. Well known historian Frank Tolbert attributed the honors to Fletcher Davis of Henderson County, Texas. It seems “Old Dave,” as he was known to most folks, owned a lunch counter in Athens where he served grilled beef […]

Browning Heights Burger

The secret to a juicy burger is using 75/25 ground beef. The additional fat in the Meat will result in a juicier, more tasteful burger.

Sonic No. 1 Burger

Try this clone recipe of the signature burger served at Sonic, America’s largest drive-in chain.

In-N-Out Double Double Burger

If you don’t happen to live near an In-N-Out burger restaurant, but would like to taste their famous burger, this recipe will come very close to giving you that experience.

Fritos Texas Loaf

This vintage recipe is for one the best meatloaves you’ll ever taste.

Corn, Roasted Red Pepper and Cheddar Quiche

“I’ve found that Fritos are an amazingly adaptable ingredient,” says Kaleta Doolin (daughter of Charles Doolin, inventor of Fritos).”

Fritos Fruit Cake

This recipe is said to have been the first official recipe developed by Mother Doolin and later refined and by Miss Morris in the Fritos consumer service department. This version is just as it was published on the back of a 29-cent bag of chips in 1932. Recipe Makes 2 Loafs Whatcha Need: 2 cups […]

Woolworth’s Frito Pie

This is the recipe said to be invented in the 1960s by Teresa Hernandez, who worked the lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth’s in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Fritos Chili Pie Casserole

This is the original recipe as printed in the Fritos Cookbook of the 1950s.

Spam: America’s Favorite Luncheon Meat

Geo. A. Hormel & Co, a meatpacker of fresh pork products, was founded in 1891 in an abandoned creamery on the banks of Red Cedar River northeast of Austin, Minnesota. Pork sales flourished during the late 1890s, and the company quickly expanded its manufacturing facilities and established a distribution center in Duluth and sales offices […]

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