I have a seen a few food writing mentors create southern food lists to try and almost every time I find something new. Southern food, with its very complex quilt of origins, has been influenced by many cultures since colonization. It can be often found that recipes in south can vary from town to town, farm to farm, house to house. We also have little pockets speckled throughout the south where dishes are so attached to a place they rarely are found outside of that area.
This list has been pulled from many other lists, but is heavily influenced by David Shields, a southern food historian and writer. He is a wealth of knowledge and is documenting important seed work. You can check out some of his work here.
I’ll continue to revisit and add to this list but for now, enjoy using this as your roadmap to the south.
Southern Foods List:
- Alabama White Barbecue Sauce
- American Chestnut Soufflé
- Apple Butter
- Apple dumplings
- Arrowroot Pudding
- Backbone Stew
- Baked Hayman Sweet Potato
- Baked Indian Ground Nuts – Apios Americana
- Baked Stuffed Mirliton
- Baked Sweet Potato
- Baked Tanya Root
- Banana Pudding
- Bananas Foster
- Barbecue Brisket
- Barbecue Hash
- Beaten Biscuits
- Beignets & Chicory Coffee
- Bene and Oyster Stew
- Benne and Hominy
- Benne Wafers
- Big hominy and sausage gravy
- Biscuits and Gravy
- Black Walnut Fudge
- Blackened Redfish
- Boiled Peanuts
- Boudin
- Bread Pudding
- Broiled Grapefruit
- Broiled Partridge
- Broiled Rice Birds
- Brown Fricassee of Guinea Fowl
- Brunswick Stew
- Burgoo
- Butterbeans
- Buttermilk
- Buttermilk Biscuits
- Buttermilk Cake
- Buttermilk Cornbread
- Buttermilk Pie
- Calas
- Callabash Style fried fish & Shellfish
- Candied Yams
- Candy Roaster Squash
- Cane syrup
- Cane syrup candy
- Cantaloupe Pickles
- Carolina Gold Rice
- Cast Iron Milk Cake
- Catfish Stew
- Chainey Briar
- Checkerberry Hard Candy
- Cheese Grits
- Cherokee Purple Tomatoes Sandwich with Duke’s Mayo
- Chess Pie
- Chestnut Skillet Bread
- Chicken & Dumplings
- Chicken & Waffles
- Chicken Andouille Gumbo
- Chicken Bog
- Chicken Pastry
- Chicken Pot Pie
- Chinquapins
- Chitterlings
- Chocolate Gravy
- Chow Chow
- Chow Chow Pickle
- Cider pie
- Clam Fritters
- Cobia
- Collard Greens
- Collard Slaw
- Conch Fritters
- Cooter Soup
- Corn custard
- Corn Pone
- Corned Shad
- Country Captain
- Country Ham & Biscuits
- Country Fried Steak
- Court Bouillon
- Crab Cakes
- Cracklin’ Bread
- Crawfish bisque
- Crawfish Etouffee
- Cream of Peanut Soup
- Creasy Greens
- Creole Cream Cheese
- Crowder Peas
- Cured Mullet Roe
- Custard Pie
- Cymlings (summer squash)
- Coyote Tomatoes
- Damson Pie
- Deep Fried Alligator Nuggets
- Deep Fried Turkey
- Deviled Crabs
- Everglade tomatoes
- Fatback
- Fig Preserves
- Fig & Ginger Candy
- Fish Muddle
- Flash Fried Oyster Crabs
- Florida Orange Juice
- Fried Chicken
- Fried Cornmeal dusted Trout
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Fried Okra
- Fried Oysters
- Fried Peach Pie
- Fried Pork Chops
- Fried Soft Shell Crabs
- Frog Legs
- Frogmore Stew
- Fruit Cake Cookies
- Geechie Boy Stone Ground Grits
- Giblet Gravy
- Goat barbecue
- Green Tomato Pie
- Grilled Grouper
- Grilled Sheepshead [the fish]
- Grits Pie
- Ground Nut Cakes
- Guinea Squash Pilau
- Hayden Mango
- Headcheese or Liver Pudding
- Hoe Cake
- Hog Maw
- Honeysuckle Syrup
- Hoop Cheese
- Hoppin’ John
- Hot Browns
- Hot Okra Pickle
- Hummingbird Cake
- Hush Puppies
- Jambalaya
- Jerusalem Artichoke Relish
- Johnny Cakes
- Kentucky Hickory Custard Pie
- Kentucky Mutton Barbecue
- Key Lime Pie
- King Cake
- Lady Baltimore Cake
- Lamb Ham
- Lazy Daisy Cake
- Leather Britches Beans
- Limestone Bibb Lettuce
- Limping Susan
- Loquat Jelly
- Mac & Cheese
- Mayhaw Jelly
- Mirltons (chayote squash)
- Moonpie
- Moravian Chicken Pie
- Muffuletta
- Mulberries
- Muscadine
- Nashville Hot Chicken
- Ogeechee Lime Pickles
- Okra & Butterbean Stew
- Okra Gumbo
- Orange Flower Syrup
- Orange Meringue Pie
- Oyster Catsup
- Oyster Po’Boy
- Oyster Roast Oysters
- Paddlefish Roe
- Palmetto Pickle
- Paw Paws
- Peach Cobbler
- Peach Fritters
- Peach Leather
- Peach Pie
- Peas and Snaps
- Pecan Pie
- Pepper Vinegar
- Persimmon Beer
- Persimmon Pudding
- Persimmon Taffy
- Pickled Oysters
- Pickled Pigs’ Feet
- Pickled Shrimp
- Pimento Cheese
- Pine Park Stew
- Poke Salat
- Pone Bread (Biscuit Bread)
- Pompano
- Possum ‘n taters
- Possum Pie
- Pot Likker
- Pralines
- Pulled Pork
- Punkin’ Puddin’
- Pumpkin Butter
- Pumpkin Chips
- Rabbit Stew
- Ramps
- Red Beans and Rice
- Red Chicken Stew
- Red Eye Gravy
- Red Pea Gravy
- Red Pea Soup
- Red Tomato Pie
- Red Velvet Cake
- Rice Bread
- Rice Waffles
- Roasted Mulberry Fed Chicken
- Roasted Reed Birds
- Roasted Wood Duck with Turnips
- Roman Chewing Candy
- Rutabaga
- Rye Crust Apple Pie
- Sassafras
- Sassafras Candy
- Sausage Biscuits
- Sausage Gravy
- Savannah Red Rice
- Sawmill Gravy
- Seminole Pumpkin
- Scuppernong Hull Pie
- Shad Roe in Bacon
- She-Crab Soup
- Shit on a shingle
- Shoofly Pie
- Shrimp & Grits
- Shrimp Creole
- Shrimp Paste
- Shrimp Pie
- Smoked Sturgeon
- Smothered Cabbage
- Snap Beans
- Soft Shell Crawfish
- Sorghum Pudding
- Sour Corn
- Sour Orange pie
- Sourwood Honey
- South Carolina Okra Soup
- Spoonbread
- Squirrel Stew
- Stack Cake
- Stone Crab Claws
- Strawberry Pie
- Stuffed Guinea Squash
- Succotash
- Sweet corn pudding
- Sweet Potato Biscuits
- Sweet Potato Candy
- Sweet Potato Fries
- Sweet Potato Pie
- Sweet Tea
- Syllabub
- Tabasco Sauce
- Terrapin a la Maryland
- Tomato Gravy
- Tupelo Honey
- Turkey with Oyster Cornbread dressing
- Turtle Soup
- Turnip Greens and Tops
- Venison Ham
- Venison Tenderloin
- Vinegar Pie
- Watermelon Rind Pickle
- White Boudin
- Whoopie Pie
- Yellow Meal Cornbread
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