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Corn Pone

Corn Pones are also referred to as "hoecakes" or "Johnnycakes." The Native Americans made them with just corn meal and water and ate it as their daily bread.

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. […]

Shrimp and Grits

Shrimp and Grits

This award winning rendition of an American South favorite comes from The Swamp Fox Restaurant & Bar in the Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina.

Butter cake

A St. Louis Original: Ooey-Gooey Butter Cake

A few weeks back, I was watching Martha Stewart Bakes during which she made something I had never heard of in my forty-plus years as a chef--a Gooey Butter Cake. It seems this cake was invented during the Great Depression in the 1930s by a German-style bakery located on the St. Louis South Side. And […]