Ok - so where'd I get the name "Cornbread & Potlikker"? Most of us here in the South are still not so far removed from our rural roots that we don't know about potlikker or for those more proper - "pot liquor". Our parents or grandparents grew up a few years back just thankful to have a cast iron skillet full of cornbread and a pot full of peas or butterbeans for a meal.
This meal symbolizes a different time - a time when people made daily decisions based upon their moral /financial and practical consequences. I hope that a reverence for that time and culture will set the tone for this blog.
( For those who still don't know - potlikker is the liquid remaining after a vegetable is cooked (peas, butterbeans, etc). Usually seasoned with salt pork and onions, it tastes wonderful poured over a slice of homemade cornbread.)
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