Homestyle Southern cooking is either done right or it is not done at all. This soul food kitchen in Alabama has apparently never considered doing it any other way.
And it shows up on every single plate. There is a specific kind of cooking that cannot be taught from a recipe card.
It lives in the timing, in the instinct, in the decision to let something simmer just a little longer than most people would bother to. The kind of cooking that takes years to develop and about thirty seconds to recognize when you taste it…