In the South, cookbooks are like practical, instructive poetry, with ingredients reading out beautifully in tandem—buttermilk, bacon grease, green tomatoes, and so on. Despite many Southern home cooks ...

Can Southerners, who are stereotypically known to love all things breaded and fried, get an appetite for lighter dishes? “If there’s not an appetite for that, there should be,” said Lauren McDuffie, ...

Savannah, Georgia's Back in the Day Bakery is known throughout the country for its stellar baked goods, as well as for its beloved co-founder, Cheryl Day. Unlike her previous two books, which feature ...

A traditional New Year's Day supper will bring you fortune in the year to come. Here are our favorite recipes for cornbread, ...

"Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate" by Fred Thompson ($35, University of North Carolina Press) Longtime food writer and cookbook author Thompson throws down with ...

When most folks think of Southern food, their minds drift straight to fried chicken, collard greens, and biscuits soaked in ...

There are recipes for okra fritters, blackened catfish and benne wafers in Rebecca Lang’s new cookbook, but there’s not a word about fried chicken. While Lang discovered many dishes could be executed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Elizabeth Karmel cooks and writes about food drink and travel. Nov 22, 2021, 06:00am EST This article is more than 4 years old.

Nathalie Dupree was famously guided by a principle known as the "pork chop theory." One pork chop in a pan goes dry, but two or more and the fat from one feeds the other, she was known to say. That ...

The culinary world lost a Southern icon with the passing of Nathalie Dupree. Over the years, the James Beard Award-winning chef, cookbook author and television personality became a mentor to food and ...

Cowritten by Lolis Eric Elie, award-winning pitmaster Rodney Scott shares his recipes and life story in this new book. If you or someone you know is a fan of whole-hog cooking, the book gives expert ...