Dirty rice

Southerners are a superstitious lot, and New Year’s Day illustrates that fact perfectly. Three things every Southern table must see on New Year’s Day: black…

Potlikker

I am full. I am full as a tick. Tonight was the Potlikker Film Festival, put on in Chattanooga by the Southern Foodways Alliance. Oh,…

Poke Sallet

Bobby and Sue come to the Community Resource Center once a month to get free stuff for poor people on behalf of Cannon County REACH,…

Cornbread salad

I came across this cookbook the other day: Sherman Didn’t Burn Our Recipes: Bartow’s Still Cooking. Really. Really? The people of Bartow, Georgia, are still…

Winter market

It was so cold this morning I almost just stayed in bed. But I needed some beef bones for a project and I made myself…