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Revitalize your passion for Southern food with this excellent collection of recipes, and start with this healthier-for-you Nashville hot chicken.

Revitalize your passion for Southern food with this collection of dishes, drinks, desserts and more. These fried boudin balls are first on our list!

Get nice and familiar with the traditional Kentucky Derby lineup, and learn the basics. For example: What is a Benedictine sandwich?

We believe cities and their diners could stand to learn from the small-town South when it comes to these five dining concepts.

The Chef and the Slow Cooker. James Beard Award-winning chef Hugh Acheson's new book is devoted to the ultimate kitchen appliance.

Whip up all the favorite dishes Poole’s chalkboard has ever sported right at home. This devil's food trifle is about as good as a chocolate dessert gets.

And as far as seamless fusion goes, Vietnamese-style "Viet-Cajun crawfish boils" were gold simply waiting to be struck. Ready for lemongrass mudbugs?

Looking to spice up your sandwich? Asheville NC's Biscuit Head has a hoop and jalapeño pimento cheese may be the best you've ever had!

The new cookbook from award-winning chef and PBS show host Vivian Howard is a deep dive into Southern food. Rather than publishing a few well-known recipes from this region and that, Howard focuses on the ingredients and techniques that have sustained her native North Carolina for generations. Get your hands on this hefty tome and…

Award-winning chef and PBS show host Vivian Howard’s new cookbook is a deep dive into Southern food. Rather than publishing a few well-known recipes from this region and that, Howard focuses on the ingredients and techniques that have sustained her native North Carolina for generations. Get your hands on this hefty tome and prepare to…

Mississippi chef Brad McDonald takes on the American South in his new book, Deep South. With time-tested recipes and modern spins on Southern favorites alongside stories, history, profiles and more, this is a superb volume that goes well beyond fried chicken and banana pudding. Part of the joy of Southern cooking is being able to elevate simple…

Linton Hopkins is a talker — that's for sure. Over the better part of an hour, the James Beard Award-winning chef muses about the emerging culinary scene in his hometown of Atlanta, discusses the continuous evolution of his 12-year-old restaurant Eugene, and dishes on his own latest restaurant openings and ambitious plans for the year ahead. He also…

Let’s face it: Atlanta is not the easiest town to restaurant and bar-hop around in. Other than the concentrated areas of Buckhead and midtown, or the high-end food courts at spots like Ponce City Market and Krog Street Market, to experience the best in Atlanta dining you’re either gonna have to rent a car with an…

Nashville is home to one of the country's most impressive food scenes. Here is where to eat and drink in Music City.

Biscuit Love was founded in Nashville in 2012 as a food truck by husband-and-wife team Sarah and Karl Worley, who quickly traded up for an Airstream (named Lilly) and then a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Gulch neighborhood. It has since become a Nashville staple due in no small part to the couple’s playful take on the classic…

To its fans, buttermilk is magic. In recipes, the tangy leftovers from the butter-churning process can act as a leavener for a perfectly flaky biscuit, be the tenderizer for the ultimate Southern fried chicken brine or add tartness to buttery mashed potatoes. The bravest of aficionados drink it straight because of claims that it can cure whatever ails you.…

Biscuit Love was founded in Nashville in 2012 as a food truck by husband-and-wife team Sarah and Karl Worley, who quickly traded up for an Airstream (named Lilly) and then a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Gulch neighborhood. It has since become a Nashville staple due in no small part to the couple's playful take on the classic…

“If barbecue is like cocaine, hash is like crack,” says chef Elliot Moss of Buxton Hall Barbecue in Asheville, North Carolina.Moss, who grew up in Florence, South Carolina, was trying to explain the appeal of this uniquely South Carolina side dish, and he was telling a story about an old man who ate it over grits.…

Chef and TV host Vivian Howard's friendly, introspective and thoroughly enjoyable PBS series, A Chef's Life, won the 2016 James Beard Award for Outstanding TV Personality. It will presumably make a great addition to her Peabody Award, her Emmy, her slew of culinary accolades and her pile of JBF Best Chef Southeast nominations. While gearing up for…

Craig Deihl didn't set out to become a master of charcuterie. His interest in cured meats was born more out of necessity than anything. “I was starting up my own restaurant at Cypress, and I needed to save money,” says Deihl, referring to the now-acclaimed restaurant he opened in Charleston, South Carolina, back in 2001. “I was confident enough to break down a…

Pimento cheese is a beloved a staple of Southern cuisine, a heavenly amalgamation of grated sharp cheddar cheese, cream cheese, mayo, chopped pimentos, minced onion, Worcestershire, cayenne pepper and love. The Masters Tournament, an annual golf championship held in the hard-to-get-to locale of Augusta, Georgia, is a significantly less flavorful amalgamation, whose longtime official snack is a pimento cheese sandwich…

“Get to Shotgun like a gunshot,” urges London’s Time Out magazine. That’s just one of the peels of praise ringing out for U.S. export Brad McDonald’s new whole-log, real-fire BBQ joint.Already renowned for conjuring up some of the British capital’s best American Deep South home cookin’ at Mayfair’s Lockhart over the past three years, McDonald has…