Hoe cake seems to be a rather elusive recipe, even among southerners. Apart from my own, I have only one friend whose family still makes it. Even among us though, the variations are vast. His family ...

If you’ve spent much time at Barrel & Ashes, the Studio City barbecue joint that’s basically a collection of high tables and bar seating around an open kitchen, at some point you’ll have developed an ...

As a snack in the fields, slaves cultivating hemp at the Farmington Plantation sustained themselves with hoe cake, said John Castro, the chef at Winston’s Restaurant at Sullivan University. This ...

Cornbread is probably one of America's oldest foods. American Indians learned early on to dry or roast corn and grind it into a meal for making bread, cakes and porridge. Cornmeal, introduced to the ...