Southern food is a rich and varied cuisine, full of complexities that make it nearly impossible to confine to a single cookbook. But that is precisely the challenge culinary historian Michael W.

Can Southerners, who are stereotypically known to love all things breaded and fried, get an appetite for lighter dishes? “If there’s not an appetite for that, there should be,” said Lauren McDuffie, ...

In the South, cookbooks are like practical, instructive poetry, with ingredients reading out beautifully in tandem—buttermilk, bacon grease, green tomatoes, and so on. Despite many Southern home cooks ...

Savannah, Georgia's Back in the Day Bakery is known throughout the country for its stellar baked goods, as well as for its beloved co-founder, Cheryl Day. Unlike her previous two books, which feature ...

"Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate" by Fred Thompson ($35, University of North Carolina Press) Longtime food writer and cookbook author Thompson throws down with ...

There are recipes for okra fritters, blackened catfish and benne wafers in Rebecca Lang’s new cookbook, but there’s not a word about fried chicken. While Lang discovered many dishes could be executed ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A culinary figure, dubbed the “Queen of Southern Cooking” by Southern Living, has died at age 85. Nathalie Dupree authored more than a dozen southern-style cookbooks ...

Southern cooking is known for comfort, flavor, and tradition, but beyond the classics like fried chicken, cornbread, and ...

Cowritten by Lolis Eric Elie, award-winning pitmaster Rodney Scott shares his recipes and life story in this new book. If you or someone you know is a fan of whole-hog cooking, the book gives expert ...