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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Two slices of BBQ brisket, one lean, the other super succulently fatty at Little Miss BBQ in Phoenix. AZ

BBQ Brisket

  • BBQ
  • 74 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Half chickens, basted with marinade, cook on a charcoal grill

BBQ Chicken

  • BBQ
  • 40 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 wing (drumette) plastered with BBQ sauce

BBQ Wings

  • BBQ
  • 5 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Close view of flaps of marinated, stir-fried beef

Bulgogi

  • 2 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Long roll holds shredded beef, molten cheese, and grilled onions

Cheese Steak

Cheeseburger

A basket of thin French fries is smothered with molten cheese and beefy chili ... car hop service

Chili Cheese Fries

  • 23 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A bowl of finely chopped sweet coleslaw at McClard's Bar-B-Q

Coleslaw

  • 71 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A bowl of soft-cooked collard greens shows bits of pork

Collard Greens

  • 68 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Bright yellow cornbread is moist like cake, dotted with corn kernels

Cornbread

Crisp-fried whole founder, topped with lemon wedges, is scored so it is easy to fork up bite-size pieces at Hyman Seafood in Charleston, SC

Flounder

A single fried shrimp with crisp crust so thin you can see through it.

Fried Shrimp

Thick, meaty hash tops a plate of white rice.

Hash on Rice

  • 19 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Cross-section of a crisp-fried spherical hushpuppy showes the inside dotted with corn kernels

Hushpuppies

Macaroni & cheese, spangled with herbs, comes in a small cast-iron pot

Macaroni and Cheese

  • 156 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Fried pork chop sandwich is garnished with sweet, zesty chili sauce

Pork Sandwich

Sauced pulled pork -- some soft, some chewy-edged -- overflow from a bun

Pulled Pork

  • BBQ
  • 96 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Light gold crescents are crisp-fried dumplings

Yaki Mandu

  • 2 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Plate of soft, syrupy yam hunks

Yams

  • 37 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes

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