If you read this blog or visit Big Jones regularly, you’ve likely noticed that the focus of our cooking is gravitating ever-so-slightly to the mountains. There are many reasons for this, chief among them that I repeatedly felt I was selling Southern cooking short by leaving out one of its great regional cuisines, that being […]
Our next family meal: Four Centuries of Heritage Grains
This past fall, when we were filming for a segment with CBS Evening News, they asked if we had any old grains on hand they could shoot with the camera. Straight away we set to the four corners of the kitchen and the freezer to pull together everything we could, and on a random Tuesday […]
Our next Family Meal: Savannah’s Cookin’
Since long before Big Jones even opened, I’ve been looking for a reason and means to serve Savannah red rice, one of the iconic (and most historic) dishes of the Lowcountry. If you’re into cool stories, how’s this one – it’s now believed that the dish red rice arrived in Savannah with Sephardic Jews fleeing […]