Cold weather is easier to welcome when you know what’s coming out of the kitchen. In West Virginia, some old family recipes feel as much a part of the season as reaching for your heavier coat. These are the West Virginia foods families save for when it gets cold. 1. Leather Britches Beans Leather britches…
Do you assume your Cracker Barrel to-go order will be the same at your kitchen table as it did in the restaurant’s dining room? Some don’t. That matters. Cracker Barrel told investors in early 2023 that takeout, delivery and catering had grown to 23% of a quarter’s sales. These are the Cracker Barrel to-go orders…
The Mississippi Delta’s Hot Tamale Festival is still almost two weeks away, but the smell already drifting downtown gives away what’s coming. Nobody hands over a menu, and the tradition runs on customs regulars rarely spell out. These are the Mississippi tamale rules nobody explains to visitors. 1. Tamale, Never Tamal Hot tamales go by…
Vinegar or ketchup isn’t the fight that separates a North Carolina barbecue regular from a first-timer at the counter. Something else gives a first-timer away. These are the North Carolina barbecue rules nobody writes down. 1. Outside Brown Order North Carolina’s Piedmont barbecue counters carry a request that never shows up printed on any menu….
An Oklahoma onion burger looks simple enough to copy at home. That’s where you can get yourself into trouble. A few small decisions separate a burger that tastes right from one that merely has the right ingredients. The cooks behind Oklahoma’s griddles take those details seriously. These are the Oklahoma onion burger rules cooks won’t…
Columbus Day weekend lands on October 12 this year. Many visitors assume every shoreline clam shack in Rhode Island will still be scooping clam cakes that weekend. That’s not the case. These are the Rhode Island clam shacks that close before anyone expects. 1. Evelyn’s Drive-In Evelyn’s Drive-In is a seasonal clam shack on Nanaquaket…
Downtown Cadiz will fill up on October 9 and 10 for the Trigg County Country Ham Festival, marking 50 years built around one cured cut of pork. A whole country ham just hangs there in a smokehouse, looking simple. It never is. These are the Kentucky country ham rules nobody writes down. Note: This is…
Eleven years straight, the American Customer Satisfaction Index named the same fast-food chain the country’s most satisfying, and the streak belonged to Chick-fil-A. It fell to second place this year. That’s a big shift for a company that built its name in a single Georgia diner decades before it grew into a nationally known fast-food…
Nebraska Athletics’ 2026 schedule sends fans back to Memorial Stadium this Saturday, October 3, for the Big Ten home opener against Maryland. Plenty of them will stop for a Runza before kickoff without looking at the menu. These are the Nebraska Runza rules Nebraskans enforce without saying so. 1. Calling It a Runza, Not a…
Mobile Bay Magazine credits a Junior League of Mobile cookbook with more than 164,000 copies sold since 1964, and collectors still spend hours hunting down a copy. The book survived. The scratch cooking inside it mostly didn’t, and cooks everywhere have traded it for shortcuts since. These are the Alabama church cookbook recipes new people…
