
Oven-Baked Lentil Soup with Greens
A warming vegetable soup with Tennessee roots and a British accent.
Photo: ANDREW MONTGOMERY

Garden & Gun Club’s Gina Lee shares her recipe for the classic New Orleans dish.
Photo: FARRAH POWER

A delicious, yet simple bean salad with lemon, parsley, and shrimp.
Photo: MARGARET HOUSTON


In this savory roasted tomato and pepper soup, Southern field peas play the part of those teeny pasta letters and numbers.
Photo: AUBRIE PICK

A go-to recipe for the Southern staple, complementing fresh or dried peas with tomato, jalapeño, and a medley of herbs.
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS

It’s not just for the new year. Black-eyed peas, rice, and pork come together for a big helping of Southern tradition.
Photo: JOHNNY AUTRY

House-made cheese straws plus a slew of local add-ins—candied black walnuts and pecans, and flash-fried soybeans and black-eyed peas—equal one addictive nosh.
Photo: JOHNNY AUTRY

Butter beans and bacon blend with tarragon and cream in a Georgia chef’s French-accented succotash.
Photo: JOHNNY AUTRY

Photo: JOHNNY AUTRY

Not-Quite-Classic-But-Close Soup Beans
The most soul-satisfying—and least expensive—dinner in the Southern-food canon.
Photo: PHILLIP RHODES

Celebrate the New Year—or any day—with chef Ashley Christensen’s recipe for luck and money.
Photo: LISSA GOTWALS