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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A fried seafood platter of oysters, scallops, shrimp, onion rings, and hushpuppies, plus a cup of cole slaw

All Things Fried

  • 30 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes

Cheeseburger

Plated roast chicken in a pool of savory natural juices

Chicken Dishes

  • 140 Restaurants
  • 2 Recipes
Cup of chili topped with cheese and chopped raw onions

Chili

A partitioned plate holds pork chopped into a heap of pieces, some soft, some crisp-edged

Chopped Pork

  • 12 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Golden-crusted, irregularly-shaped bite-size pieces of cracklin are eaten off the paper bag in which they were purchased.

Cracklin’s

  • Bacon
  • 28 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Children's dessert: upside-down ice cream cones with faces on the scoops of ice cream

Dessert

  • 34 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Crisp-edge, creamy-center French fries sprinkled with salt

French Fries

  • 224 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes

Fried Chicken

Fruits and whipped cream top a buttermilk biscuit

Fruit Cakes

  • Cake
  • 30 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Thick, meaty hash tops a plate of white rice.

Hash on Rice

  • 19 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Moist jerk chicken, plastered with spices, comes with rice and cabbage

Jerk Chicken

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Fresh pastas, ready to boil

Pastas

  • Pasta
  • 44 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Plate holds breakfast pork chops with eggs and a bowl of grits.

Pork Chops

  • 57 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Miniature vanilla bundt cake is served sopped with rum

Rum Cake

  • Cake
  • 4 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Mountainous sandwich holds pastrami, egg, French fries, cole slaw, and a tomato at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburg, PA

Sandwiches

Seafood platter is loaded with fried shrimp, scallops, oysters, flounder, plus deviled crab and hushpuppies

Seafood

  • Seafood
  • 133 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Pink, butter-sauced shrimp surround a mound of thin spaghetti noodles

Shrimp

  • Seafood
  • 133 Restaurants
  • 3 Recipes
Traditional spaghetti with meatballs and sweet tomato sauce.

Spaghetti

  • Pasta
  • 30 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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