Southern-Style Potato Salad Serves 8 Ingredients 3 lbs. red potatoes 3 eggs ⅔ c. mayonnaise 1 tbsp. spicy mustard 2 tbsp. sweet salad cubes salt (to taste) white pepper (to taste) black pepper (to taste) Procedure Wash potatoes, removing bad spots. If some potatoes are large, quarter or eighth them so that pieces are the same [...]
Electric Arnold Palmer
This cocktail is cool and refreshing enough for a hot, sunny afternoon game. You can mix the batch in advance. Electric Arnold Palmer Ingredients 3 parts sweet tea 2 parts lemonade vodka Procedure Mix and serve over ice. Variations: The Other Arnold Palmer 2 parts sweet tea vodka 3 parts lemonade The Ill-Advised Arnold Palmer [...]

Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork
Courtesy of Buck Webb This eastern NC style barbecue is a close second to a pit-cooked pig. When you don’t have a cooker or a whole pig, this is the way to go. Barbecue aficionados will be shocked when you tell them this came out of a slow-cooker — we checked. Ingredients Rub 6 tsp. [...]

Eastern N.C. Barbecue Sauce
Recipe courtesy of Ken Page Prepare this sauce at least a day in advance and taste after it’s been mixed for at least eight hours. Adjust the heat and acid as necessary for your tastes at that point. This sauce is ideal for pulled pork and we’ve had great success putting it on chicken, in [...]

Pimiento Cheese Jalapeño Poppers
Ingredients 1 recipe pimiento cheese, chilled jalapeños thin-cut bacon Procedure Refrigerate pimiento cheese for at least four hours. Thirty minutes before prep, soak toothpicks. Wearing gloves, halve jalapeños lengthwise and remove their membranes and seeds. Fill the jalapeños’ cavities with the chilled pimento cheese. For each jalapeño, cheese-side up, put a piece of bacon underneath [...]

Kickin’ Pimiento Cheese
Double this savory, spicy recipe if you want to make our pimiento cheese poppers or serve as dip to more than a few folks. Feel free to play with the spices and quantities; pimiento cheese is hard to mess up. Ingredients 8 oz. sharp cheddar cheese, coarsely grated (pre-shredded does not come together as easily) [...]

Reflections of Glory: Football & Southern Identity
I don’t know when I first became aware of football, and I’m not sure when I attended my first game. I remember my mother cooking fried chicken to take tailgating, but I don’t remember the game (I do, however, remember eating the chicken). I remember one Saturday as a boy my father and I were [...]








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