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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Baby back ribs: 2 bones carry lots of meat. ... roadside barbecuue

Baby Back Ribs

  • BBQ
  • 7 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A bowl of buttery, jade-green lima beans

Beans

  • 41 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Green bean casserole moist with cream of mushroom soup and laced with crunchy wisps of fried onion

Casserole

  • 46 Restaurants
  • 1 Recipe
Coffee-shop fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and greens

Chicken Dinner

  • 21 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Fragile crust supports a light chocolate cream pie topped with meringue.

Chocolate Cream Pie

Sweet corn with pepper spice

Corn

  • 60 Restaurants
  • 1 Recipe
Bright yellow cornbread is moist like cake, dotted with corn kernels

Cornbread

Fragile, light tan baked croissant holds strawberries and pastry cream

Croissants

Gnarly fried chicken livers are piled on a plate with vegetables in the background

Fried Chicken Liver

Fried chicken thigh enveloped in crunchy red-gold crust

Fried Chicken Thigh

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

Wedge of pie with tall yellow base and even taller meringue, flecked with toasted coconut

Pies

Creamy cole slaw balances shredded cabbage with sweet pineapple

Pineapple Slaw

  • 3 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Soft chunks of rutabaga in a green-rimmed diner bowl

Rutabagas

  • 9 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Seafood platter is loaded with fried shrimp, scallops, oysters, flounder, plus deviled crab and hushpuppies

Seafood

  • Seafood
  • 133 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Shrimp, crawfish, okra, rice, and spice crown a bowl of Cajun gumbo.

Seafood Gumbo

Tacos filled with shrimp, salad, and jalapeno cream

Tacos

  • Tacos
  • 83 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes

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