FROM THE DAY THE FIRST CLING PEACHES FROM South Carolina and Georgia show up in Southern markets and on farm stands till the last freestone

THOUGH STILL AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE CAROLINAS, Clemson Blue Cheese, produced in relatively small quantities on the campus of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina,

KNOWN ALSO AS TURTLE BEANS, BLACK BEANS HAVE been used in the Deep South to make this inimitable soup since at least the early nineteenth

LEGEND HAS IT THAT DURING THE FIRST YEARS ON THE Kentucky frontier, housewives followed the cows into the region’s meadows and picked only the wild

FIRST, TO CLEAR UP ONE GRAVE MISCONCEPTION: genuine yams are not sweet potatoes, despite their resemblance to them in shape and flavor. The two are

THROUGHOUT THE DEEP SOUTH AND MUCH OF Appalachia, pot likker is essentially no more than the vitamin-rich broth left over in a pot of boiled

INTRODUCED TO THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM Africa by Thomas Jefferson, eggplant is often referred to as Guinea squash in Louisiana, where the vegetable has always

WHEN TENNESSEE WAS PART OF THE VIRGINIA Territory in the eighteenth century, settled mostly by the English and Scotch Irish, cooking in the hill country

EVER SINCE SETTLERS IN THE FIRST SOUTHERN colonies churned butter derived from a sour milk called clabber and drank the leftover nutritious liquid, buttermilk has

IN ONE VERSION OR ANOTHER, I’VE HAD THIS SPICY bean soup from the Louisiana Delta right up to the Texas border. The most memorable I’ve