Thanksgiving Day Series: FDR and The Making of a Federal Holiday

Chess pie, recipes below So when and how did Thanksgiving become a legit federal holiday in the United States? Until the 1940s the cou...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 6 Abraham Lincoln Started It

Turkey with cranberries, recipes below The Thanksgiving Day holiday has a much shorter history than most people realize. European Settl...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 5 English Foodways and the Antebellum South

Apple cobbler, recipes below Fruit cobblers represent one the earliest desserts prepared on special occasion days like fall harvest ...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 4 Mac and Cheese History

Baked macaroni and cheese, recipes below What’s southern about baked macaroni and cheese (mac and cheese) and how did it get on the mus...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 3 Pie Culture in Colonial America

Sweet potato pumpkin pie, recipe below If you have southern roots or grew up on a farm, you more then likely had sweet potato pie as on...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 2 Using the Last Fruits of the Growing Season

Smothered shrimp over fried green tomatoes, recipe below Here’s a dish I created that’s rooted in sustainable gardening. This time of the ye...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 1 Heirloom Recipes

Pecan pie, recipe below The Thanksgiving table is never considered complete if you can’t fill up a least one separate table with desert...

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Feeding the Revolution in Jackson, Mississippi Part 2

M ississippi delta tamale, recipe below Yesterday I started a Veterans Day post talking about WWII veteran and civil rights activist Me...

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Feeding the Revolution in Jackson, Mississippi Part I

Pig ear sandwiches from the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi , recipe and additional links below President Woodrow Wilson is the ...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: President Obama's Indonesian Childhood

Spicy pad Thai, recipes below This is the last in a series of post on spicy hot flavored foods. In Dutch colonial Indonesia (1800-1942) eli...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Cooling Down in Asia, Africa, and America

Jambalaya served with corn brread, recipes below Beginning with the Portuguese in the 1470s, elite European explorers and colonizers came i...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Heating Up Europe

Portuguese Piri piri chicken and tomato salad, recipes below Historically there has been a race and class dimension to the custom of ea...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 4 Hot Is A Relative Term

Bhindi Do Pyaza (spicy okra with onions), recipe below One of my wife’s good friends has deep roots in Alabama including an under gradu...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 3 Simple Low Country Seafood Dishes

Spicy shrimp and grits, recipe below I am in the midst of a series on spicy hot food. In my kitchen I have wonderful framed picture of ...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 2 Culinary Adaptations

Spicy roasted fava beans with chili powder and lemon Above, L o cro, a thick and spicy South American fava bean soup (almost a stew) , re...

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