Preface Acknowledgments Breads Skillet Cornbread Sally Lunn Popovers Farmstead Biscuits Sweet Potato Biscuits Cheddar Biscuits Beignets Buckwheat Banana Pancakes Antebellum Rice Waffles Salt-Rising Bread Abruzzi Rye Bread Awendaw Spoonbread Inspirations from the Lowcountry Benne Oyster Stew She-Crab Soup Carolina Gold Rice and Boiled Peanut Perlau Pickled Shrimp Creamy Grits Shrimp and Grits Reezy-Peezy, ca. 1780 Mustard Barbeque Sauce Sea Island Benne Cake Roux Icing Sea Island Benne Ice Cream Coconut Cream Cake Cream Cheese Icing South Louisiana Crawfish Boudin Fritters Gumbo Ya-Ya Cajun Seasoning Creole Boiled Rice Gumbo z''Herbes Crawfish Étouffée Barbecued Shrimp Creole Seafood Seasoning Red Beans Voodoo Greens Brown Butter Roasted Palm Hearts Debris Gravy Rémoulade Eggs New Orleans Poached Eggs Crab Cakes Béarnaise Potatoes O''Brien Bread Pudding Cherry Bavarian Cream The Appalachian Highlands Sautéed Ramp Greens with Benne Grilled Asparagus with Cottage Cheese and Lemon Pimiento Cheese Hominy Succotash Old Virginia Fried Steak, ca. 1824 Chicken-Fried Morel Mushrooms Sawmill Gravy Turnip Greens with Potato Dumplings Pan-Fried Ham with Redeye Gravy Buttermilk Pie Jelly Roll Cake Salty Sorghum Taffy Kentuckiana Chicken and Dumplings, ca. 1920 Sweet Tea-Brined Pork Loin Fried Chicken Duet of Duck with Bourbon Giblet Jus Potted Duck Rutabaga Confit Creamed Brewster Oat Groats with Parsnips and Hen of the Woods Braised Sausages with Sauerkraut and Parsnips Mashed Potatoes Charred Brussels Sprouts with Shallots and Pecans Black Walnut Sorghum Pie Short Crust for Sweet Pies Chocolate Pecan Tart Pawpaw Panna Cotta Persimmon Pudding Pie Salty Sorghum Ice Cream The Delta and Deep South Cheese Straws Boiled Peanuts Fried Green Tomatoes Goat Cheese and Potato Croquettes Pecan Chicken Salad Crispy Catfish à la Big Jones Crowder Peas Sweet Potato Hash Mississippi Mud Pie Red Velvet Cake The Bar Sazerac Cocktail, ca. 1940 Chatham Artillery Punch Oleo-Saccharum The Consummation Sweet Leaf Blue Yodel No. 1 Bloody Mary Jones Death in the Afternoon Cherry Bud Bitters Rhubarb Julep Brandy Fix The Pantry Clarified Butter Basic Mayonnaise Green Goddess Standard Canning Instructions for Shelf-Stable Pickles and Preserves Chow-Chow Bread and Butter Pickles Piccalilli Five-Pepper Jelly Okra Pickles Raspberry Preserves Elderberry Jelly Apple Butter Pickled Peaches Preserved Quince Kumquat Marmalade Savory Benne Crackers Worcestershire Sauce Basic Vinaigrette Bourbon and Brown Sugar Mustard The Whole Hog Andouille Boudin Boudin Rouge Chaurice Head Cheese Tasso Bacon Ham Pickled Pig''s Feet Lard Crackling, aka Gratons Notes on Sources Index.