“IT BETTER WORK, PAULA!” was my editor’s response when I proposed doing black-eyed peas for my Instant Pot recipe this month. All caps, just like that. At first I was confused—of course the recipe ...

Three-time James Beard Award–winning culinary historian Michael W. Twitty has published a new, extensive recipe collection ...

Every year about this time, Vince Hayward, CEO and fourth-generation owner of L.H. Hayward & Co., gives out bags of red beans and green split peas. The 95-year-old Louisiana company, based just ...

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Are you bored with broccoli? Find yourself craving a vine ripened tomato? Can’t get those visions of simmering butter beans and crowder peas out of your head? And what about that vinegary whiff of ...

Even in this year when so much is different, chef Jennifer Hill Booker expects to spend Thanksgiving in Charleston, Mississippi, the place she considers “home.” There, at the farm of her grandparents ...

The time to enjoy Southern peas is finally upon us. Every summer brings forth a plethora of pods filled to the hilt with tiny spheres of different colors. Here is your guide to this iconic Southern ...

Southern fresh white acre peas are a true Southern delicacy and one that brings to mind warm summer days and farmers’ markets overflowing with fresh vegetables. Every summer I eagerly await the first ...