A recent trip to Abingdon, Virginia yielded a rare food find: POPCORN CORNMEAL.
The assistant miller at the historic White’s Mill just outside town told me the story. During the Civil War, troops from both armies often took local food stores, leaving civilians to fend for themselves. And according to Abingdon oral history, one such incident [...]

You can put in baking powder. You can put in crackling’s. You can even add jalapenos and bake it in a muffin tin. But whatever you do, don’t you dare put sugar in my cornbread! Read more of this essay…
Special equipment: A well-seasoned 12-inch cast iron skillet or a 9-by-9 glass baking dish
Ingredients: 3 C. [...]

“If God had meant for cornbread to have sugar in it, he would have called it cake.” — Ronnie Lundy from Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken: The Heart and Soul of Southern Country Kitchens
You can put in baking powder. You can put in cracklings. You can even add jalapenos and bake it [...]