Guide to traditional Southern salads 12 Articles

by V. E. Steele

Potato salad is a common sight on most southern tables, and it is usually served with one of the most popular southern entrees, barbecue. When I was growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where my grandmother lived, we had a bi...read more

by Betsy Young

Southern salads are supreme. Wednesday night prayer meetings, Saturday afternoon BBQ's, Friday night after the game, lunchbox delights southern salads are the glue that holds everything else together. Potato salad is al...read more

by just another voice

Southern salads were and will continue to be a mainstay in all forms of cooking and food preparation. Whether as part of a Sunday family dinner or alongside grits and eggs the next morning , salads, especially Southern st...read more

by Nannie Kate

What better way to beat the heat in these last sweltering summer days than cool, inviting salads? Hot days and warm nights call for lighter fare from the kitchen and Southern cooks know the best ways to cool down their he...read more

by Jennifer Eblin

If your version of a salad includes a bunch of random vegetables tossed on top of a bed of lettuce, than you've never spent time in the South. There is no one right answer for "what is a Southern salad?" because it can be ...read more

by Pat Lunsford

Traditional Southern salads are usually packed with flavor. My personal favorite is cabbage salad, which is actually glorified coleslaw. But boy oh boy it is so good. I learned how to make it when I was twenty-two years ol...read more

by Pamela Kay

The word salad can sometimes take on a completely new meaning, if you happen to live in the South. Too be sure, there are the traditional salads with lettuce and tomatoes and cucumber and so on. However, Southerners can ad...read more

by Gloria Edmonson Nelson

Southern salads are the best; because they require the following qualities: 1) Presentation is most important. 2) Taste has to be exciting, in other words, spicy is the key. 3) Lettuce has to be crisp - not withered! ...read more

by Holly Berry

A Traditional Salad in the South can be a Main Dish, a Side Dish or even a Dessert. So much of the South is on a Coastline, either the Atlantic seaboard or the Gulf Of Mexico, that it's a small wonder that we have so m...read more

by Brent White

The definition of "salad" in the South takes on new meaning. The standard salad of iceberg lettuce, maybe a tomato and cucumber, topped with a good dressing, is only one of many type salads served in the south. Salads ...read more

by Regina Galloway

In South Carolina, we have all types of salads which do not include your average lettuce, tomato, and cucumber. Potato salad would definitely be number one on the list;the potato itself is, so versatile. You can serve th...read more

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by R E Payne

There are as many ways to make a salad in the South as there are to cook up a gumbo in New Orleans but before proceeding, be warned - there is something you must know: In the South, the words light' and southern' are usual...read more