This website is devoted to the celebration of Southern Cooking. If you're a true Southern cook you already have a container of bacon grease on your stove. Git it ready - you'll need it to get started along with sweet ice tea, several iron skillets, lots o' gravy ('specially Red Eye) and hot Crisco for frying. You should also know how to cook grits! Grits, similar to polenta, is served up with cheese, onion, and garlic. Grits are great with shrimp, sausage, or just plain with butter. In Tennessee and at Waffle House, grits are "king".

Now, let's go fry up a grit! Grits Recipes

How To Make A Pitcher Of Southern Sweet Iced Tea

(One thing you need to know before cookin'...when we say mayo in the South we really mean Miracle Whip Salad Dressin'.) Southerners with money believe Hellmann's Mayonnaise is the only mayonnaise .. let's not burst their bubble! A real Southern cook uses Miracle Whip.

Original Grits Poems

Do African Elephants eat grits? I don't think so. Do you produce grits on your farm and want to sell them on the #1 grits site online? Contact us and maybe we can work somethin' out. Or, if you are looking for free government grant money, check out this site to find grants. Or, if you want to give of your time, volunteer in Gainesville.