COLORFUL LAYERED SALADS HAVE BEEN A HOLIDAY tradition in some Southern families for almost a century, served either on an elaborate Thanksgiving or Christmas buffet

BEING VIRTUALLY UNAWARE OF (OR OBLIVIOUS TO) the fashionable fresh tuna rage elsewhere in the country, Southerners have a veritable obsession with canned tuna and

LOUISIANIANS, MISSISSIPPIANS, AND TEXANS LAY AS much claim to the creation of black-eyed pea “caviar” as the folks in Arkansas, but since the best version

SOUTHERNERS HAVE NO MONOPOLY ON CLASSIC American potato salad enhanced with all sorts of other ingredients and dressed primarily with mayonnaise, but they do draw

MY SISTER GOT THIS RECIPE FROM AN OLD COLLEGE friend who lived in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and many is the time she has served the elegant

SOUSING, A COOKING METHOD WHEREBY SEAFOOD IS completely immersed and simmered in a highly seasoned pickling liquid, can be traced back to the classical Greek

FROM LITTLE RIVER DOWN TO GEORGETOWN, SOUTH Carolina, fishermen keep roadside markets stocked with the freshest, fattest, most beautiful white shrimp imaginable, and I must

Here’s a great vegetable salad that you can take along to a picnic or serve at home. The avocado dressing gives it an elegant look