Visit my mom’s house on New Year’s Day and you will be treated to simple, humble fare – a black-as-midnight cast iron skillet sizzling with buttermilk cornbread, a pot of black-eyed peas and a bowl of
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Food
Crispy, sweet date candies
Anyone else remember these sweet treats from their childhood? I'm revisiting the Christmas treats of my youth this year,
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A grapefruit drink from Chef David Tanis
I’ve come to believe that home food is best, but it’s not often an opinion that you will hear expressed by a world-class
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Favorite Southern Christmas cookies
“Oh Buddy, I think it’s fruitcake weather,” goes the opening line to one of the best short stories ever written (and
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Around the Thanksgiving table
I’ve never set a place at the Thanksgiving table for my father-in-law. He died a few years before I met my husband., so
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Classic apple dumplings, with an appearance by my evil twin
Apple dumplings just sound good. Ever since coming across a picture of apple dumplings in a 1970s Southern
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A labor of love: Homemade egg pasta
Homemade pasta is one of those "many hands make for light work" kitchen projects. Sure, it can be made alone, and it's a
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Granddaddy’s Cast-Iron Skillet Fried Corn
One of the distinctive characteristics of living in the New South, cookie-cutter suburban Atlanta, is that the Old
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Low Country Love: Shrimp & Grits
If there is a universal code of comfort food, surely shrimp and grits would be part of it. If I were writing the rules,
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P is for Potluck (and Peas!)
Contrary to what many believe, May, not December, is the busiest month for my colleagues in the mommy business. You may
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