A Love Affair With Southern Cooking_ Recipes and Recollections - Jean Anderson [257]
ncsmokehouse.com. Headquarters for tasso, andouille, boudin, and other Cajun sausages.
newsomscountryham.com. Fine-fleshed hams aged from a 200-year-old curing process. Also available: smoked bacon and sausages, aged prosciutto hams.
smithfieldcollection.com. The famous Smithfield hams as well as Virginia country hams.
smithfield-companies.com. Smithfield hams, honey-cured hams, roasted ham, smoked ham, Virginia country ham, even ring-necked pheasant.
smithfieldhams.com. Smithfield hams featured in The New York Times, also ham and turkey combos and bacon and cheese biscuits.
smokymtnbbq@skybest.com. Nitrite-free country hams made the same way for nearly 100 years. Ingredients: Ham, salt, brown sugar, fresh mountain air, and time.
thevirginiacompany.com. Honey-glazed Edwards hams and Smithfield hams plus smokehouse samplers from Smithfield.
virginiatraditions.com. The famous hickory-smoked Edwards Virginia hams (cooked or uncooked, bone-in or -out, whole, halves, or slices); bacons (sugar-cured, hickory-smoked, or nitrite-free), and sausages (smoked or fresh, links or patties).
Jams and Jellies, Pickles and Preserves
bedfordcheese.com. Wine jellies, hot pepper-pecan jelly, lemon curd.
sosupreme.com. Everything from blackberry jelly to peach marmalade to hot red pepper jelly. Wonderful mustards, too, plus a stellar tomato relish.
Soft Drinks
Cheerwine. Cherry-flavored soda from Salisbury, North Carolina. Available from boiledpeanuts.com.
Royal Crown Cola. Southerners suffering withdrawal symptoms because they can’t find their favorite southern cola can order it from boiledpeanuts.com.
Sun Drop. Another popular southern soda available from boiledpeanuts.com.
Farm and Orchard Nuts
ab-nc.com. Home-style southern peanuts: blister-roasted, raw redskins, raw blanched peanuts, chocolate-dipped, and spicy, smoky Wingnuts®.
auntrubyspeanuts.com. Peanuts (the plump, sweet Virginias): salted in-the-shell, honey-roasted, raw shelled (even shelled and blanched), country-style, chocolate clusters.
byronplantation.com. Mammoth pecans in the shell or out plus pecan candies.
natchitochespecans.com. Pecans sugared, pecans spiced from a 400-acre Louisiana orchard.
thencstore.com. Toasted, wine-marinated peanuts (chardonnay or merlot), also mocha nuts, a margarita mix, and Fire Dancer jalapeño peanuts.
pearsonfarm.com. U.S. Grade #1 fancy pecans: pieces or halves, plain, roasted and salted, spiced, or chocolate-dipped.
pnuts.net. Blister-fried peanuts, spiced or chocolate-coated peanuts.
priesters.com. Gloriously fresh pecans, in the shell or out, roasted or raw plus various candied pecans. Priester’s has been shelling and packing the South’s finest pecans since 1935.
sunnylandfarms.com. Not just Georgia pecans; that means almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, English walnuts, hazelnuts, macadamias, peanuts, pistachios, and hard-to-find black walnuts.
werenuts.com. Truly fresh pecans large and small, plain and fancy, plus almonds, black walnuts, Brazil nuts, cashews, and macadamias.
Wild Hickory Nuts
It takes about four hours to extract one pound of “meat” from wild hickory nuts, which explains why the shelled are so expensive. Still, if you’ve ever tried to do the job yourself, you will happily pay top dollar.
pinenut.com/hickory-nuts.htm. Five-pound boxes of ready-to-shell hickory nuts.
rayshickorynuts.com. Shelled hickory nuts by the pound; there’s a one-pound minimum.
wildpantry.com. Shelled hickory nuts in one-pound bags.
Pottery
There are hundreds of fine potteries scattered about the South, but not all of them offer a good variety of functional cookware and/or tableware. These do:
bulldogpottery.com. Bruce Gholson’s one-of-a-kind glazed vases, salad bowls, and other serving pieces plus Samantha Henneke’s whimsical ceramic tiles.
cadyclayworks.com. Contemporary tableware, much of it with layered glazes—blue/green, orange/brown, etc. Also lidded stoneware casseroles.
chickenbridgepottery.com. Rusty Sieck’s jugs and mugs, platters,