Notes From the Kitchen
OG food blogger since 2009 and author of the award-winning cookbook My Southern Table. Substack is where I write about food, cooking, and kitchen traditions shaped by time, place, and experience, as a companion to the recipes on my blog.
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Somebody Needs to Tell New Hampshire About Turnip Greens (opens the original)
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It was the fall of 1988, our first (and only) autumn in New Hampshire, and I was standing inside Tuttle’s Red Barn, America’s oldest family farm, near Portsmouth, trying to find what I’d come for.Tuttle’s was a good farm stand, the kind of place that had been in the same family for generations. BeeBop and I were so glad to have found it early in our time there in the Northeast. Real vegetables, fresh from the field, the kind of produce we were used to back home in Georgia. We drove out as often
The Best Jelly You've Never Heard Of (opens the original)
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There’s a jar in my refrigerator right now filled with the prettiest jelly you ever saw. Clear coral, somewhere between peach and pink, catching the light like a gem that should be in a jeweler’s case instead of sitting on a shelf next to the mustard. If I set it in front of you and asked you to guess what it was made from, you’d never get it. And then when I told you the name, most of you still wouldn’t know what it was.It’s mayhaw jelly. Go ahead and raise your hand if you’ve heard of it.<div
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