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Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we talk about the 150th Kentucky Derby, our favorite trainers and horses, and wait for it, Burgoo Stew!  That’s right we give the secret recipe for Burgoo Stew.  This  ancient recipe has travel over 150 years to be revealed here on the Cornbread and Buttermilk podcast.  So get your note pad, and a fast writing pencil.  You won’t need your  official Cornbread &am...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about some of our favorite restaurants in Canton Georgia, and we also talk about some we’ve yet to try.  We discuss the impact that Zach Kell has had on Canton’s  dining scene.  We express our apologies for not yet visiting POPS, (Palermo’s Original Pasta & Sandwiches).  We hope to visit P.O.P.S. Soon.  We are delighted that Andy and Amber chose Canton...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about Thomasville, one of Georgia’s Hidden Culinary Gems.   We found the oldest restaurant in Georgia there.  The Plaza Restaurant & Oyster Bar opened in 1916, and is still open today.  They have a cocktail lounge, and indoor and outdoor seating.   They serve lunch and dinner they are at 217 Broad St.    The Sweet Grass Dairy Cheese shop at 123 S. Broad...

Send us Fan Mail Cornbread & Buttermilk entered the 35th Helen Trout Tournament held on Saturday March 30th.  Arriving 2 days early so we practice our casting, in case we’re had gotten rusty.  We had a comfortable stay in the Unicoi lodge.   We discuss beloved vintage bamboo fly rods, and cooking Trout the Ernest Hemingway way.   Corn bread mentioned the book ‘Basque Country , a culinary journ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we bring you some updates about last weeks Easter Episode, and also we update you on a new Dolly Parton cast Iron skillet from Lodge.  We talk about the upcoming Golf Tournament in Augusta Georgia, The Masters Tournament.  We give a little history that we ourselves learned as we delved deeper into the history of the famed international tournament.  It was the brain...

Send us Fan Mail  Cornbread & Buttermilk are reminiscing over childhood Easter’s in the Deep South.  Find out what Easter was like at Maw-maws house.   They recall how dressing for Easter was a part of southern culture.  Azaleas and Dogwood trees, were the backdrops for family photos.  Of coarse there were the Easter Egg Hunts held on emerald green manicured lawns.   The azalea bush made a per...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 10 where we discuss Hot  Sauce, B-B-Q Sauce, and the wizardry behind the southern formulas.  We reveal the 5 distinct regional styles of B-B-Q sauce we found.  Learn how the first commercially produced B-B-Q grill came about.  Find out what the Scoville  heat scale can tell you about your hot sauce.  Find out where Cornbread thinks the Origins of the south’s B-B-Q sauce ca...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we travel to the Sautee Nacoochee Valley in White County Georgia where we travel back in time to the Historic Hardman Farm, and the Nora Mill Grainery.  We learn who the Anna Ruby Falls was named for, as well as who built the glimmering white red roofed gazebo on top of the Sautee Nacoochee  Indian mound.  We got to meet the young man who grinds corn meal on a 150...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode Cornbread  talks about raised beds, and the importance of living soil.  Having a healthy microbial world living in our soil directly contributes to our crops health. Buttermilk talks about the different types of honey.  She discusses how local plant life can affect the color and taste of honey produced in a 5 mile radius of the hive.  https://www.blueridgehoneyc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about The Bland Family Farm in Glennville, Georgia where they grow the famous Vidalia Onions.  We give dates for the Vidalia Onion Festival.  We talk about our favorite place in Ball Ground Georgia to buy steak and bacon, as well as locally grown vegetables.   We talk about our favorite church B-B-Q, Buttermilks Mother and Father were involved in the B-B-Q...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about our Valentine week, and our Valentine dinner.  We discussed spring gardens and seed selection.   Buttermilk found the best selection of southern seed companies for southern gardeners, and she shares her findings with our Cornbread Cousins, and Buttermilk Buddies.  We hope you enjoy the program, and if you do please consider sharing our podcast with a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss what Valentine means to us, and Buttermilk has discovered a wealth of chocolatiers hiding in some beautiful southern towns that you may want to visit, so this promises  to be a show you won’t want to miss.   Please share the show with your family and friends, it means a lot to us and helps us decide what our listeners would like to hear more of.  We appr...

Send us Fan Mail An introduction to the Cornbread & Buttermilk Podcast, and the legend of its origins.  The Cornbread & Buttermilk Podcast is where we discuss the culinary uniqueness of the Deep South.  Our mission is to explore the culinary origins of the southern kitchen, while sharing our passion for recipes from the south’s agrarian past.  We bring stories, recipes, book reviews, and t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a continuation of the book reviews from episode 4, season1.  In this episode I give Edna Lewis’s formula for Making Baking Powder (without Aluminum).    I review Jennifer McLagan’s book, FAT.   We talk about cooking with fat.  We Discuss making homemade butter, which is covered in McLagans book.   I mention two more books by McLagan, Bitter, and Bones.  We discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Cornbread & Buttermilk reveal their cast iron cookware preferences.  Find out Buttermilk’s secret for buying the world’s most expensive cast iron cookware for Pennie’s on the dollar.  Listen and learn. They review a classic by Lodge, and compare it to Walmarts backpacker trio, and Kohl’s modern design skillets.  Who makes the best?   The answers inside Ballad  Memories song Ve...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Corn Bread and Buttermilk discuss their favorite cook book authors. Buttermilk talks about Nathalie Dupree’s books, and her cooking school in Atlanta Georgia, while Cornbread talks about Dr. Jessica B. Harris’s book, High on the Hog.  They also have a lively discussion about Chef Edna Lewis, and Scott Peacock’s Big Baking Soda secret. Ballad  Memories song Velma si...