May 4, 2010
We use the word “nut” in cooking to denote any of a wide variety of seeds or fruits with seeds. Botanically speaking, walnuts, pecans, cashews or peanuts are not really nuts whereas acorns, chestnuts and hazel nuts are true nuts. The peanut is actually the seed of a legume and thus related to alfalfa, beans ...
March 8, 2010
Southern Cuisine I grew up in mid-century mid-America. Memphis, Tennessee on the Mississippi River. My parents are from Mississippi and Arkansas. But I’ve lived in California the past three decades and think of food with a California “health conscious” attitude. Southern fried chicken is probably the most widely known Southern food. Spread nationwide by fast ...