A traditional New Year's Day supper will bring you fortune in the year to come. Here are our favorite recipes for cornbread, black-eyed peas, and greens.

The smell of collard greens simmering low and slow, a cast iron skillet of cornbread crackling in the oven, and biscuits ...

If you grew up on cast-iron skillets, slow-simmered pots, and recipes passed down at the kitchen table, this collection ...

Thanksgiving dinner should feel like a huge hug, comfort food at its best. Often the menu includes recipes steeped in family tradition, richly seasoned with stories of meals past and those who ...

They're old-fashioned, Southern, and mostly slathered in mayonnaise. We asked our Southern Living readers for your favorite ...

Cheryl Day grew up in Los Angeles. But her mother was from Alabama, and she made sure her youngest child stayed connected to the South. At age 8, Day began to spend summers with her grandmother in ...

November feels a bit like the start of a rollercoaster at the amusement park: You know what's coming—the ups and downs and loops and whirls of a busy holiday season—but for a brief moment, you can ...

Tim Martin, an owner and chef at Martin’s Soul Food To-Go, gets ready to serve up some macaroni and cheese on Oct. 12, 2022. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — As slave ships crossed the Atlantic with their tragic ...

As slave ships crossed the Atlantic with their tragic cargo of bodies, they also carried okra, black-eyed peas, yams and rice. Africans who survived the journey planted their staples and eventually ...