Are you bored with broccoli? Find yourself craving a vine ripened tomato? Can’t get those visions of simmering butter beans and crowder peas out of your head? And what about that vinegary whiff of ...

Field peas are the South's most varied legume, but many cooks never venture past black-eyed peas and might not realize there are other choices. We should, however. Although black-eyed peas are good, ...

This classic black eyed peas and collard greens recipe is a comforting Southern dish made with smoky bacon, tender colla ...

Few things beat down home country-cooking. Purple hull or crowder peas simmering on the stove, okra and tomatoes sizzling in the skillet and corn bread baking in the oven signal that good eating is ...

After two months of festivities, January always rolls in with a resolution for healthy eating. Greens top the grocery list and Vishwesh Bhatt’s cookbook, “I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes from a ...

“IT BETTER WORK, PAULA!” was my editor’s response when I proposed doing black-eyed peas for my Instant Pot recipe this month. All caps, just like that. At first I was confused—of course the recipe ...

My south is the South Bronx, where Southern cooking was not on the menu. Peas were fresh, green, round and came in bright, green pods. When I got sophisticated–that is, when I ventured south–I learned ...