Autumn isn’t just the season of pumpkin spice, trick-or-treating, and sweater weather; it’s also the season of new cookbooks. Each fall, a bounty of new books hit the shelves, filled with fresh ...

The cover of "When Southern Women Cook" and authors Toni Tipton-Martin (left) and Morgan Bolling (right). (Courtesy of America's Test Kitchen) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on April 7, ...

In 1880s San Francisco, Abby Fisher's pronounced Southern accent must have been difficult to decipher. When the South Carolina–born cook dictated her recipes to friends, the word "succotash" ended up ...

Some dinners make you wish the table were bigger, just so you could bring more opinions and appetite. With these 19 Southern dishes gathered from forgotten recipe cards and well-worn cookbooks, every ...

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, ...

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.

"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 ...

These soul food recipes are about so much more than comfort—they're the very soul of the Black community. Here's the list, complete with tips from Black chefs and creators.

NEW ORLEANS — Contemporary southern cooking is getting a taste of something fresh — respect. Even above the Mason-Dixon Line, the food of the South no longer is about fried chicken and barbecue ...

UNC Press has a long history of publishing books about Southern food and foodways; however, Southern cookbooks are coming from all the major publishing houses in 2012 or 2013. From Charleston authors ...

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 ...