Category: Southern food

Summer Foods Conjure Memories of Growing up in the South

By Debra-Lynn B. Hook From Tribune News Service I bite into a plump, juicy blackberry in my Ohio kitchen and suddenly it is a blistering summer afternoon in the South and I am 8. I am with my three sisters and our pails, in the middle of the brambly bushes in the woods behind my…


The Meat-and-Three: This Humble Southern Fare is Still Everyone’s Favorite in Nashville

Every few minutes, Kahlil Arnold loudly greets a patron walking into his family’s restaurant—usually a familiar face he already knows by name. One summer afternoon in 2021, he spotted his sister’s high school music teacher, WC, sitting at the counter, chatting with said sister. “WC has been coming here since my dad was running the…


What Makes a Great Gumbo?

I gathered with a small group in a back room at SoBou, a Creole restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Each of us had a little cup of a deep brown stew with pieces of chicken and sausage rising above the surface and a small scoop of potato salad in the middle. This…