Brunswick Stew
IT SEEMS THAT I’VE SPENT A LIFETIME INVESTIGATING the origins of Brunswick stew, not to mention cooking and eating it. Georgia crackers are fully convinced that the lusty stew was created in Brunswick, Georgia, in 1898 at a July Fourth celebration, and to make the claim official, the town has mounted the original pot at […]
Kentucky Burgoo
“NO, NO, NO, THAT’S ALL WRONG,” EXCLAIMED A LOCAL at a Kentucky Derby party I attended in Louisville when I began telling how I make burgoo and failed to mention pork and veal shank, chopped cabbage, okra, and a slew of seasonings. Of course, Kentuckians are as sensitive about their burgoo as Virginians are about […]