Kim Severson, The New York Times
Published: 03 Mar 2021 11:35 AM BdST
Updated: 03 Mar 2021 11:35 AM BdST FILE The Tipsy Texan sandwich from Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, March 7, 2017. The cookbook from the owners of Franklin Barbecue rose from the publisher’s backlist to become a surprise pandemic darling among cooks. (Drew Anthony Smith/The New York Times).
The books that America cooked from during 2020 will stand as cultural artifacts of the year when a virus forced an entire nation into the kitchen. );
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The pandemic has been good to cookbooks. Overall sales jumped 17% from 2019, according to figures from NPD BookScan, which tracks about 85% of US book sales.
Cornbread provides Southern comfort
The Good Book of Southern Baking: A Revival of Biscuits, Cakes, and Cornbread (Lorena Jones Books/TNS)
Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune
As cold temperatures settle in, and along with it cravings for comfort food, we can safely declare it chili season.
Some people spend years cultivating the perfect chili recipe, but I recycle the same one every time. In my kitchen, chili is just a vehicle for cornbread.
I grew up with the small blue-and-white box of Jiffy mix as a cornbread barometer. It was fine, but wasn’t going to change the world. It wasn’t until I started traveling and tasting more that I realized cornbread could be so much more – and, that when it comes to cornbread, people have strong opinions.
Listen 11 min MORE John Morisano said he never had a conversation about race, gender, class, and culture with his business partner, Mashama Bailey, until they started writing their book. Photo by Marcus Kenney.
A Black chef from Queens and a white business entrepreneur walk into an abandoned Greyhound bus station. Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano converted the space into an award-winning destination restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. The Grey provides more than meals to a community with a dark history of segregation. Their business partnership evolved into a friendship that represents turning a divided past into a promising future. Their book of building a business and friendship is “