Thinking that over, I recalled my first taste when visiting a friend in Mississippi whose mother, the archetypal Southern hostess, served homemade biscuits for breakfast with eggs, bacon and grits. A ...

When F&W gave our market basket challenge to 'Top Chef' Season 5 contestant Jeff McInnis, the owner of Miami’s Southern-inflected Yardbird restaurant, we purposefully included shrimp but no grits.

Those who grew up in the South know there’s nothing quite like a bowl of creamy grits — so versatile that you can eat it at any meal, on its own or with something else, savory or sweet. But where can ...

Everybody knew that chef, cookbook author and TV personality Paula Deen, with her enthusiasm for high-fat Southern cooking, was a gastronomical disaster waiting to happen. What they did not know is ...