Dishes

The dishes we eat define who we are. Familiar or exotic, regional or universal, what's on the plate is an edible portrait of those who eat it, cook it, serve it, and grow or gather it.

Gravy spills across a pile of just-carved turkey in an open-face fandwich, with sides of mashed potatoes and cole slaw.

Turkey Sandwich

Hash browns made of sweet otatoes are accompanied by a biscuit and an egg white omelet

Sweet Potatoes

Pumpkin pie topped with whipped cream... tenderloins and sugar cream pie

Pumpkin Pie

Brussels sprouts glazed with maple-chile marinade

Brussels Sprouts

Deep oval casserole is piled high with mashed potatoes on top

Shepherd’s Pie

Bright yellow wedge of custard pie is sprinkled with nutmeg

Custard Pie

On a diner counter: a bowl holding a scoop of mashed potatoes covered with brown gravy

Mashed Potatoes

Large mound of corn pudding plays a supporting role on a disposable diner plate.

Corn Pudding

Caesar Salad

Tall, gnarled-top light gold biscuit

Biscuits

Country Fried Steak

Puffy, oven-baked pancake forms abowl that contains fresh fruit and powdered sugar.

Dutch Baby

Velvet-soft gnocchi glow with tomato sauce.

Gnocchi

A big meatball and length of Italian sausage loll in red sauce in a deep dish

Meatballs & Sausage

Baked potato heaped with BBQ, cheese, butter and sour cream

Baked Potato

A great pile of mashed potatoes holds a spill of brown gravy.

Gravy

Wine red blackberries spill from a wedge of pie

Blackberry Pie

Green-checked paper holds brittle-crusted broasted chicken along with equally crisp broasted potatoes

Broasted Chicken

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Custard, sliced bananas, crumbled Nilla wafers, and meringue are crowded in a diner bowl

Banana Pudding

BBQ chicken drips with mayo-based white sauce

Barbecue Sauce

  • BBQ
  • 11 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
BBQ-sauced beans in a blue bowl

BBQ Beans

  • BBQ
  • 45 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Two rib bones are laden with a great mass of spice-crusted, smoke-cooked beef

BBQ Ribs

  • BBQ
  • 112 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Chicken & vegetables pack a bowl of Brunswick stew

Brunswick Stew

  • Soup
  • 26 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Crisp circular potato chips on a red-checked tablecloth

Chips

  • 65 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Sauced chopped pork shares space in a bun with cole slaw at McClard's Bar-B-Q

Chopped BBQ Sandwich

  • BBQ
  • 3 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Cafeteria tray holds a square meal of BBQ chicken, mac & cheese, collards, cornbread, sweet tea, and banana pudding

Dinner Platters

  • 175 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A huge hunk of puffy-crisp crusted fish is perched on a bed of thin truffled French fries

Fish & Chips

Basket holds a groupo of fragile-crusted fried green tomatoes.

Fried Green Tomato

  • 45 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Whole okra pods fried with a delicate crust

Fried Okra

  • 21 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Macaroni & cheese, spangled with herbs, comes in a small cast-iron pot

Macaroni and Cheese

  • 156 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A dozen raw oysters on the half-shell

Oysters

Opened pasty shows moist beef, potatoes, rutabagas

Pasty

  • 12 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Creamy potato salad

Potato Salad

  • Salad
  • 61 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Sweet tea in the afternoon light at a southern cafe counter

Sweet Tea

  • Tea
  • 26 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes

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