Southern
Lemon Icebox Pie
Easy lemon icebox pie recipe with a graham cracker crust and whipped cream topping.
By David Guas and Raquel Pelzel
Sweet Potato Cornbread
Sweet potatoes provide rich flavor and vibrancy to this versatile cornbread recipe
By The Epicurious Test Kitchen
Potato Salad
This Southern-style potato salad recipe comes from legendary chef Leah Chase. Bookmark it for cookouts, potlucks, and any other delicious occasions.
By Leah Chase
Blackberry Cobbler
A classic summer dessert, this easy recipe is so much more than the sum of its parts.
By Virginia Willis
Classic Seafood Boil With Lemon-Butter
You’ll need your favorite seafood seasoning and your biggest pot for this seafood boil brimming with shrimp, sweet corn, smoky sausage, and tender potatoes.
By Rhoda Boone
Texas Sheet Cake
Don’t mess with lush chocolate cake, fudgy frosting, and crunchy toasted pecans. (Who would want to?)
By Julie Richardson
Kentucky Bourbon Pie
This nut pie recipe with chocolate chips and bourbon keeps things simple and honors the hallmarks of a classic Derby pie.
By Jesse Szewczyk
This Iconic Louisiana Cake Adds Coconutty Crunch to a Classic Bundt
This favorite from church functions and community gatherings is somewhere between a pound cake and a coffee cake, with loads of toasty coconut on the exterior.
By Vallery Lomas
Louisiana Crunch Cake
This Louisiana Crunch Cake recipe uses shredded coconut and granulated sugar to obtain its crunchy exterior—a tasty contrast to the pound-cake-like interior.
By Vallery Lomas
Caesar Fire Crackers
This recipe takes the fire cracker formula and Caesar-izes it, bringing in the umami punch of Parmesan and the oil from a jar of anchovies.
By Stephanie Ganz
Lemon-Pepper Artichoke Wings
These air fryer vegetarian wings get dredged in a beer batter, then coated in buttery panko spiked with lemon zest and black pepper.
By Casey Elsass
Hoppin’ John
This slow-simmered Southern classic uses just six ingredients (including water) to create rich, timeless flavor.
By John Martin Taylor
Biscuits and Gravy
Tender buttermilk biscuits are the perfect vehicle to sop up creamy, velvety sausage gravy.
By Inés Anguiano
Thanksgiving in Louisiana Is All About Rice Dressing
This is the ultimate vehicle for sopping up your homemade gravy.
By Vallery Lomas
Creole Rice Dressing
In Louisiana, rice dressing, which combines rice, ground meat, and aromatics, is served alongside turkey and all of the trimmings at Thanksgiving.
By Vallery Lomas
How to Make a Roux for Mac and Cheese, Gumbo, Gravy, and More
All you need is fat, flour, heat, and time.
By Zoe Denenberg and The Editors of Epicurious
Classic Pecan Pie
This easy recipe for homemade pecan pie is loaded with nuts and gets a little verve courtesy of orange zest.
By Andrea Albin
Fried Apple Pies
This Southern delicacy wraps the warm flavors of cinnamon-spiked apple pie into a buttery handheld crust.
By Edna Lewis
Chess Pie
Easy to make and impossible to forget, this classic dessert combines a buttery pie crust with luscious, tangy custard.
By Virginia Willis
Fluffy and Fabulous Coconut Cake
This version of the classic Southern coconut cake keeps things simple with a fuss-free white cake enrobed in frosting with a layer of shredded coconut.
By Jesse Szewczyk