Around the end of May, my usual love and admiration for all things corn amped up a bit. I mean, I’ll put corn in anything, but I took it to an extra corny level as corn season approached, exploring recipes related to my favorite vegetable. Working ahead on my column […]
Tag: cornbread
Bread of the Month: Crumbling new life into old cornbread
[T]he first time I made “bread salad†or panzanella, as it’s commonly called, the recipe had me soaking cubes of very stale, sturdy bread in water, wringing those cubes out and mixing them with tomatoes, onions, cucumber, basil and vinaigrette for what turned out to actually be a very delicious […]
Bread of the Month: Digging into past with hoecakes
[W]hen we travel, we meet ourselves head-on. Outside of our regular routines and familiar environments, we can self-startle and see sides of us we don’t always see. Like my stomach…I saw it walking ahead of me in downtown Atlanta, sticking straight out, fuller than I had ever seen it, proud […]
Bread of the Month: Testifying to a proper cornbread
[T]raditions. More and more — in terms of cooking and beyond –it seems the option one grew up with, be it a recipe, cooking method, practice, is the correct and only one. Take cornbread, for example. I do like a sweet cornbread, but because of my family’s declaration that a […]