Keep these shows coming is RIGHT! This series blows my mind and makes me feel i am back home with my Great Grandparents, Great Aunts and Uncles, neighbors and family. And teaches me so much i don't know
Chef Hardette- Us Up North From NC beautiful thanks for keeping the recipes traditional, flawless technique on cornbread and that cast iron fried panfish 🥰🥰! Great explanation and accurate of the history as well.
I am African American and I love corn bread. I also live in NYC where it is possible to purchase all kinds of foods (organic, cultural etc). When I became wheat free, I was able to create a delicious and true to my roots corn bread using corn meal (my family tradition) and corn FLOUR, which I found in my Caribbean community in abundance. Thank you so much for this show (oh and yes, a little sugar ;) #SouthCarolina #Orangeburg!
I enjoyed watching your presentations. I like the way your Grandmother ate her Greens, with her fingers. We ate our greens the same way at home ( not in public).😍 Your food dishes looked great. I am headed to the kitchen to make me some cornbread. I might cook a cabbage since no greens are available. THANK YOU AGAIN!
I’m from Oklahoma, which I jokingly refer to as “South-lite” or the “Diet South”. 😂 I grew up eating sweet cornbread and it’s how I prefer it to this day. But I tend to like the balance of savory foods with the sweetness of the cornbread. However, I can appreciate unsweetened cornbread in certain situations... like when it’s used in dressing. 😅
My 94 year old grandmother from Arkansas makes skillet cornbread, and serves with fresh purple hull peas and fresh onions. There is nothing better! And for dessert, put some butter and syrup on a slice.
Well now, I sure learned a thing today ... nobody ever explained to me before that hot-water cornbread has to be fried. I always thought you had to do it like skillet bread and never could see how that would work, so I never would try it. Now maybe I'll get up some courage, fetch out my griddle and try some on.
Love y'all & REAL corn bread without sugar! I'm from Alabama & now live in Los Angles & every where you go is that sick cornbread suffering from sugar, saturation. 😪😷 Growing up on a farm we ate corn bread with everything, especially pintos, buttermilk & greens. Thank y'all sooooooo much ! PLEASE KEEP ON COOKIN 🍳 Your Brother in Christ, Blake
When you mentioned cracklin cornbread it almost made me shed an tear and I was excited. I had forgotten about it until this video. My late grandmother from Bessemer Alabama use to make that cornbread and as a kid I loved it. My grandmother who is 85 makes her cornbread just like the lady makes her in the cast iron skillet with no sugar. I've had the best of both worlds sweet and non sweet cornbread and I appreciate both to this day. I enjoyed this video immensely.
Aggies '12 & '13 here! My grandma loved her cornbread in buttermilk. We love hushpuppies!Can't get good cornmeal here in the UK; polenta doesn't work!! We miss our cornbread!!
I loved when we would have cornbread as a kid. I haven't had it much since I moved away from home. But now that I've seen how to make it more traditionally, I'll need to try.
I'm from the Gulf South in Mississippi and the elders in my family still eat greens with their fingers, say thats the only way to eat them. The South is so full of heritage. It has its painfull history but also has a lot of good people (we dont meet strangers just new friends) and great food.
Visited my family in Memphis last year and just had hot water cornbread for the first time. So delicious! I normally fix cornbread baked in a skillet and I prefer it sweet but hot water cornbread is great too.
Just came across your channel, the first video was cajun cooking pigs. I'm hooked. I have lived in two Southern states first Virginia and now NE Florida. I was born in raised in Phoenix AZ and moved to Virginia in 1978 for work. In Phoenix, you eat a lot of Sonoran Mexican food, a state in Mexico. So when I tried Cajun food in Virginia Beach, hooked.
I never really grew up with cornbread so the first few times I had it was from a local baking company that did a sweet cornbread that I used to buy as a snack, eventually I started making it myself and I did back off the sugar quite a bit from theirs, but I still like a very little sweet in my cornbread, especially if I'm pairing it with something spicy. Thanks for telling me what to make for dinner lol
Soo informative..Thankyou... I've had my share of cornbread failures... but i will get it right. I like bacon grizzle and sage.. black pepper ground.. extra eggs
Love your channel Brother! I love PBS , and yes no sugar in corn bread love the concept if you wanted something sweet eat cake. I love hot water cornbread from my grandmas and thanks for shouting out my Native American ancestors.
I mean you guys mention different kinds of cornbread cultures and methods of preparation. I'm just curious if there's anything more than what was mentioned.
I am sure there are. Many are mentioned in comments here. Cornbread dressing, cornbread in buttermilk, spoon bread, cornmeal souffle, hushpuppies, to name a few..😊
Look up Emma's Goodies. Couple videos back she did a really special sweat cornbread. I tried it and I'm hooked. Good thing is you can adjust the amount of sugar in it.
How I like my cornbread? Served hot. I don’t care if it’s northern sweet, or southern savory. But I also like locally made ground cornmeal; that really makes it!
I remember the first time I met someone who did not eat sweet cornbread, I had asked In my family we use honey to sweeten the cornbread what do you use? It was a real debate in our church. The response I received shocked me and made me question much of what I knew to be true. It was what honorable Southrener puts any kind of sugar in their cornbread. My world cracked. I was a Southerner so were all the people in my church being call not honorable by a Southerner. I thought that was just Northerners. I was 12. Cornbread man life-changing stuff.
I love skillet cornbread, I make mine with buttermilk. I've also recently tried hoe cakes, and I used Amelia Simmons' 1796 recipe, which has hot water, but also some butter and molasses. Those are good plain or with a bit of jam, but that's probably more of a northern thing.
I've never been able to try real non-sweet cornbread, but I love the sweet stuff! If someone made me some, I'd definitely want to try it. I thought the debate would be whole corn in or no. I loved how chill this episode was.
Great vid! In Georgia we always called the sweet kind "yankee cornbread". Whichever way you like it, you've got to have it with teens, or peas. Like another poster said, love me some extra pea liquor to sop up with it!
White southerner here. 3/4 cornmeal, preferably stone ground, 1/4 flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, egg, buttermilk. Fry bacon and onion in bacon drippings or lard in my old cast iron skillet. Add it to the batter, then a little butter in the skillet. NO SUGAR. Pour the batter in the hot skillet and bake. I might try these other things, but my kids would probably object.
My experience with Southern cooking comes solely from my time in the military, so with that said I can say I never developed a taste for cornbread. But maybe I didn't get the real deal. Pork in anything is good, so its inclusion is intriguing to me. As always, great presentation.
I like it sweet, but I grew up in Iowa where I almost literally cut my teeth on sweet corn on the cob. Sweet corn was one of my favorite things, growing up, so when we would make cornbread it was pretty natural for me for it to be sweet. We didn't make it often, either. Maybe once or twice a year. For some reason, I think we only had it with Ham and Bean soup, but I have no idea why. It wasn't until much later I encountered a non-sweet cornbread. I didn't really care for it, much. I don't know that it was a very good example of unsweet cornbread, but I could only halfway enjoy it with a ton of butter and honey. At that point, why not just make sweet cornbread?
A cast iron dutch oven with a bit of butter, with tomatoes an okra (pickled okra is even better), smoked hog jowl, butter beans and maybe some mustards
Recently, I saw a "TV chef" make cornbread without any salt. The last time I made cornbread, I did not have enough salt, and I did not enjoy it. Imagine no salt!
@@PBSNourish Oysters, green chile, anything that wouldn't just dissolve. He also did that with beans, stews, and salad. The green chile actually turned out good.
1:03 I like Chef Harris's dad. I think I favor savory, and drier, cornbread in part because I like to sop or even crumble cornbread in something saucy like beans, and the sweetness gets in the way of the overall flavor there. As a standalone, I think moist and sweet cornbread goes better with something that doesn't have a lot of sauce or gravy.
People think that southern food is just fried chicken and country fried steak smothered with gravy. That's good and all but this is real southern food.
I'm Mexican, so my favorite "cornbread" is a tortilla... lol. No, but I've only seen baked sweet cornbread here in the midwest, and it's usually paired with chili for some reason. That's the kind I make when I'min the mood for cornbread. If anyone likes sweet cornbread, I encourage you to try pastel de elote, a sweetened corn cake that typically uses cornmeal/corn flour and fresh corn. It's definitely on the dessert end of the spectrum, but it's not overpoweringly sweet, and the texture is light and crumbly. So good! I personally prefer to eat cornbread alone, as its flavor tends to get dominated by other ingredients. I imagine that unsweetened cornbread tastes a lot like masa, which is one of my favorite things in the world, so I'd love to try it.
wow! you just made the connection for me between southern hoecakes and Colombian arepas! we're all just different beans from the same burrito ain't we...
I've never had cornbread and I don't even know where to get it since I'm not in the US but I've heard people mention it a lot so I'm curious. I guess I could make it myself
Lol, she said she didnt want to start any corn bread wars. O like mines sweet, but not too sweet. Only like my corn bread dressing without sugar, all though I sometimes put a little, less than usual so it could be more savory.
It is so refreshing to see real Southern cornbread from start to finish! Keep these shows coming!
Keep these shows coming is RIGHT! This series blows my mind and makes me feel i am back home with my Great Grandparents, Great Aunts and Uncles, neighbors and family. And teaches me so much i don't know
I love this show, I hope it goes on for a long time.
We hope too!!!!
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From Nigeria. Your meals look amazing!!!!!! I hope to enjoy your delicacies some day..
Thank you!
Chef Hardette- Us Up North From NC beautiful thanks for keeping the recipes traditional, flawless technique on cornbread and that cast iron fried panfish 🥰🥰! Great explanation and accurate of the history as well.
Please bring this show back! I'm sitting here watching every one of them. Great host and content. Thank you!
I am African American and I love corn bread. I also live in NYC where it is possible to purchase all kinds of foods (organic, cultural etc). When I became wheat free, I was able to create a delicious and true to my roots corn bread using corn meal (my family tradition) and corn FLOUR, which I found in my Caribbean community in abundance. Thank you so much for this show (oh and yes, a little sugar ;) #SouthCarolina #Orangeburg!
OMG, you should have wayyyy more subs. The production on here is crazy good!
I enjoyed watching your presentations. I like the way your Grandmother ate her Greens, with her fingers. We ate our greens the same way at home ( not in public).😍
Your food dishes looked great. I am headed to the kitchen to make me some cornbread. I might cook a cabbage since no greens are available. THANK YOU AGAIN!
My mouth is watering watching this video
How is this show not in national television?
I’m from Oklahoma, which I jokingly refer to as “South-lite” or the “Diet South”. 😂
I grew up eating sweet cornbread and it’s how I prefer it to this day. But I tend to like the balance of savory foods with the sweetness of the cornbread.
However, I can appreciate unsweetened cornbread in certain situations... like when it’s used in dressing. 😅
Cornbread dressing is so good!
NOURISH It’s the best dressing! Haha!
Some times a mildly sweet corn bread goes good with some beans.
My Granny used to eat her greens & cornbread with her fingers, LOL. This video took me back !
Finally, I found someone that makes cornbread without sugar! Thank you! That’s exactly how my southern Mother made it.
OMG that reminds me of Sunday dinner at granny's house. Thank you!!
Doc, I just sat down and watched ALL of your videos, right in a row and they are GREAT. Keep 'em coming.
It's all good! Thank you Dr. Conyers for your contribution in educating us on our American culture!
My 94 year old grandmother from Arkansas makes skillet cornbread, and serves with fresh purple hull peas and fresh onions. There is nothing better! And for dessert, put some butter and syrup on a slice.
Love purple hull peas!
Thank You The finger prints show's the Love put in it
Well now, I sure learned a thing today ... nobody ever explained to me before that hot-water cornbread has to be fried. I always thought you had to do it like skillet bread and never could see how that would work, so I never would try it. Now maybe I'll get up some courage, fetch out my griddle and try some on.
Love y'all & REAL corn bread without sugar!
I'm from Alabama & now live in Los Angles & every where you go is that sick cornbread suffering from sugar, saturation. 😪😷
Growing up on a farm we ate corn bread with everything, especially pintos, buttermilk & greens.
Thank y'all sooooooo much !
PLEASE KEEP ON COOKIN 🍳
Your Brother in Christ,
Blake
Great video.....you rocked that cornbread and meal! We southern’s love our veggies and cornbread!
Thank you!
I was wondering why cornbread has that bitter taste sometimes? Great video btw!
Oh I love it all
When you mentioned cracklin cornbread it almost made me shed an tear and I was excited. I had forgotten about it until this video. My late grandmother from Bessemer Alabama use to make that cornbread and as a kid I loved it. My grandmother who is 85 makes her cornbread just like the lady makes her in the cast iron skillet with no sugar. I've had the best of both worlds sweet and non sweet cornbread and I appreciate both to this day. I enjoyed this video immensely.
Yes, Cracklin cornbread is one of favorites. Yes, Chef Harris makes the cornbread just like grandma.
The background music at 6:00 while she is cooking the fish is a "pure imagination" from Willy Wonka.
Aggies '12 & '13 here! My grandma loved her cornbread in buttermilk. We love hushpuppies!Can't get good cornmeal here in the UK; polenta doesn't work!! We miss our cornbread!!
0:57
I don't know this woman but, just from this, I know I'd get along splendid with her.
I agree ☝️. She is an authentic, articulate, artist sharing her awesome gifts !!!!
thank you for sharing all those good food experience🍖🍞🍤🍍🍻👍
I loved when we would have cornbread as a kid. I haven't had it much since I moved away from home. But now that I've seen how to make it more traditionally, I'll need to try.
Great Show Dr Conyers. I love how your shows dive into the history of the foods. Keep up the good work.
We have fried fish and cornbread exactly the same way in Turkey
Delicious! What sides?
Loved this video so much
I'm from the Gulf South in Mississippi and the elders in my family still eat greens with their fingers, say thats the only way to eat them. The South is so full of heritage. It has its painfull history but also has a lot of good people (we dont meet strangers just new friends) and great food.
Visited my family in Memphis last year and just had hot water cornbread for the first time. So delicious! I normally fix cornbread baked in a skillet and I prefer it sweet but hot water cornbread is great too.
That hot water cornbread looked amazing!
This was excellent
Just came across your channel, the first video was cajun cooking pigs. I'm hooked. I have lived in two Southern states first Virginia and now NE Florida. I was born in raised in Phoenix AZ and moved to Virginia in 1978 for work. In Phoenix, you eat a lot of Sonoran Mexican food, a state in Mexico. So when I tried Cajun food in Virginia Beach, hooked.
I never really grew up with cornbread so the first few times I had it was from a local baking company that did a sweet cornbread that I used to buy as a snack, eventually I started making it myself and I did back off the sugar quite a bit from theirs, but I still like a very little sweet in my cornbread, especially if I'm pairing it with something spicy. Thanks for telling me what to make for dinner lol
I love y'all 🤗
I want some cornbread and greens but I already ate.😬whew chile lol
I've always had sweet corn bread with honey.
I never knew there were other ways of having it.
Thank you for opening my eyes to a new world of flavor!
For me, it's unsweet cornbread with a little bit of honey paired with an egg and dark roast coffee for breakfast.
No better way to start a day.
Can't go wrong with cornbread 👍🏿
You are right!
Love what you guys are doing with these videos!
Thanks! Keep watching and be sure to subscribe.
Bits of jalapeño and a few sweet corn kernels added as well......dipped in honey and butter! Yummers!
Hot water cornbread With purple hull peas, extra pea liqour
First time i heard about corn bread was along time ago, when i'm watching movies "green mile", it has pique my interest since
wow this was amazing i love it :D
Soo informative..Thankyou... I've had my share of cornbread failures... but i will get it right.
I like bacon grizzle and sage.. black pepper ground.. extra eggs
each video shows me how uneducated I am about food
Or how many different ways there are to prepare and enjoy it...😊
Same
Buttermilk and cornbread...memories!
I love Hot Water Cornbread, and I love sweet regular cornbread!! Outstanding video!! It’s all in what you like!!
In the Harris family no one like sweet Cornbread but me!! Lol!!
Agreed!
Love your channel Brother! I love PBS , and yes no sugar in corn bread love the concept if you wanted something sweet eat cake. I love hot water cornbread from my grandmas and thanks for shouting out my Native American ancestors.
Her brother thed Harris was my head football coach in Marshall Texas
Damn, those greens look good
Can we get an episode on someone who makes sweet cornbread too?
My grandmother taught me to sprinkle sugar on the top before you put it in the over and it will form a sugary crust.
I mean you guys mention different kinds of cornbread cultures and methods of preparation. I'm just curious if there's anything more than what was mentioned.
I am sure there are. Many are mentioned in comments here. Cornbread dressing, cornbread in buttermilk, spoon bread, cornmeal souffle, hushpuppies, to name a few..😊
John Smith No self respecting Southerner puts sugar in cornbread. That's Yankee cornbread. LOL
Look up Emma's Goodies. Couple videos back she did a really special sweat cornbread. I tried it and I'm hooked. Good thing is you can adjust the amount of sugar in it.
How I like my cornbread? Served hot. I don’t care if it’s northern sweet, or southern savory. But I also like locally made ground cornmeal; that really makes it!
AMEN
Yum! I´m hungry again and I just ate!
skillet wide skillet deep...looks good
I remember the first time I met someone who did not eat sweet cornbread, I had asked In my family we use honey to sweeten the cornbread what do you use? It was a real debate in our church. The response I received shocked me and made me question much of what I knew to be true. It was what honorable Southrener puts any kind of sugar in their cornbread. My world cracked. I was a Southerner so were all the people in my church being call not honorable by a Southerner. I thought that was just Northerners. I was 12. Cornbread man life-changing stuff.
I love skillet cornbread, I make mine with buttermilk. I've also recently tried hoe cakes, and I used Amelia Simmons' 1796 recipe, which has hot water, but also some butter and molasses. Those are good plain or with a bit of jam, but that's probably more of a northern thing.
That sounds delicious! A lot of folks crumble cornbread into buttermilk too. Jam is always good.
I knew someone who put bacon and sugar in their Greens... OMG it was delicious!!
I've never been able to try real non-sweet cornbread, but I love the sweet stuff! If someone made me some, I'd definitely want to try it. I thought the debate would be whole corn in or no. I loved how chill this episode was.
Corn in is also good!
At 6:47 she forgot the candies yams 🍠 um.
Hey looking at her family picture her brother was my high school football coach at Marshall high school in east texas !!! Small world
Thanku
living in the southwest i love my corn with some fresh hatch green chili's.
Great vid! In Georgia we always called the sweet kind "yankee cornbread". Whichever way you like it, you've got to have it with teens, or peas. Like another poster said, love me some extra pea liquor to sop up with it!
Me too - Thanks for watching!
That salad l looks righteous
White southerner here. 3/4 cornmeal, preferably stone ground, 1/4 flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, egg, buttermilk. Fry bacon and onion in bacon drippings or lard in my old cast iron skillet. Add it to the batter, then a little butter in the skillet. NO SUGAR. Pour the batter in the hot skillet and bake. I might try these other things, but my kids would probably object.
I love purple hull😍😍😍
My experience with Southern cooking comes solely from my time in the military, so with that said I can say I never developed a taste for cornbread. But maybe I didn't get the real deal. Pork in anything is good, so its inclusion is intriguing to me. As always, great presentation.
Thanks!
No sugar in cornbread!! Glad to see it done right.
I like it sweet, but I grew up in Iowa where I almost literally cut my teeth on sweet corn on the cob. Sweet corn was one of my favorite things, growing up, so when we would make cornbread it was pretty natural for me for it to be sweet. We didn't make it often, either. Maybe once or twice a year. For some reason, I think we only had it with Ham and Bean soup, but I have no idea why.
It wasn't until much later I encountered a non-sweet cornbread. I didn't really care for it, much. I don't know that it was a very good example of unsweet cornbread, but I could only halfway enjoy it with a ton of butter and honey. At that point, why not just make sweet cornbread?
Nothing wrong with sweet. Or butter and honey for that matter...
A cast iron dutch oven with a bit of butter, with tomatoes an okra (pickled okra is even better), smoked hog jowl, butter beans and maybe some mustards
All of em
Recently, I saw a "TV chef" make cornbread without any salt. The last time I made cornbread, I did not have enough salt, and I did not enjoy it. Imagine no salt!
Dang’er Bo!!! A year later and this still isn’t a full length show!
No sugar in my southern cornbread. Food looks delicious.
I like both. Sweet or not.
Prob choose sweet if I had to though.
I never met a cornbread I didn't like. ☺ 👍
or a buttermilk biscuit...
I miss my grandad's cornbread...even the prank ingredients.
Prank ingredients? What would he put in it?
@@PBSNourish Oysters, green chile, anything that wouldn't just dissolve. He also did that with beans, stews, and salad. The green chile actually turned out good.
1:03 I like Chef Harris's dad.
I think I favor savory, and drier, cornbread in part because I like to sop or even crumble cornbread in something saucy like beans, and the sweetness gets in the way of the overall flavor there. As a standalone, I think moist and sweet cornbread goes better with something that doesn't have a lot of sauce or gravy.
Also, I think I really need to try hot water cornbread.
That meal looks good.
SWEET CORNBREAD MATTERS
In Minden Louisiana now. Wondering if I know her?
buttermilk, yellow, into a skillet smoking with rendered lard then put into a preheated oven. cracklins optional
People think that southern food is just fried chicken and country fried steak smothered with gravy. That's good and all but this is real southern food.
I'm Mexican, so my favorite "cornbread" is a tortilla... lol. No, but I've only seen baked sweet cornbread here in the midwest, and it's usually paired with chili for some reason. That's the kind I make when I'min the mood for cornbread. If anyone likes sweet cornbread, I encourage you to try pastel de elote, a sweetened corn cake that typically uses cornmeal/corn flour and fresh corn. It's definitely on the dessert end of the spectrum, but it's not overpoweringly sweet, and the texture is light and crumbly. So good!
I personally prefer to eat cornbread alone, as its flavor tends to get dominated by other ingredients. I imagine that unsweetened cornbread tastes a lot like masa, which is one of my favorite things in the world, so I'd love to try it.
Sounds delicious! Thanks!
I love tamalito, hoe cakes are also what we call arepas and are delicious. Those two are my favorite cornbreads.
I like all cornbread, eating hot water cornbread right now lol
with onions!
wow! you just made the connection for me between southern hoecakes and Colombian arepas! we're all just different beans from the same burrito ain't we...
Like your bean analogy - thanks 😊
I've never had cornbread and I don't even know where to get it since I'm not in the US but I've heard people mention it a lot so I'm curious. I guess I could make it myself
yep, no sugar needed!
True southern cooking
Save me a piece, please!
Lol, she said she didnt want to start any corn bread wars. O like mines sweet, but not too sweet. Only like my corn bread dressing without sugar, all though I sometimes put a little, less than usual so it could be more savory.
I usually add bacon, jalapeños, and cheddar cheese.
Beautiful lady and so smart.
I agree if I want something sweet I'll eat cake now nothing like some good butter milk corn bread.
If you add a small can of cream corn and bacon it takes it to another level.try it.