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New Years Day meal

Another Year, Another Black-Eyed Pea

For longer than I care to admit, I've started each year enjoying a typical Southern style New Year's Day meal—baked ham, collard greens, cornbread, boiled new potatoes, and of course, black-eyed peas. In fact, to the best of my recollection, it's about the only day of the year that I eat these black spotted legumes. […]

American as Apple Pie?

We've all heard the expression "American as apple pie" hundreds of times. But in truth, just how American is apple pie? What you may not be aware of is both apple pie and the fruit whose name it bears are actually of European descent, coming to this country by way of early colonial English settlers. […]

Maple Syrup: The Original American Sweetener

Like with so many foods invented in this country, the question of when and how maple syrup was first discovered is surrounded by legends and folklore. Probably the most popular of these stories is that an Iroquois Chef named Woksis threw his tomahawk at a tree releasing a clear sap that his wife used for […]

Fried pickle chips

French Fried Pickle Slices

These fried pickles were an appetizer prepared for the 1962 Newspaper Food Editors Conference in New York City.