Crowder peas, black-eyed peas, lady peas, purple-hulled peas, pink-eyed peas, and butter peas have fed Southerners for centuries. They were brought from Africa to the Americas as part of the slave ...

Are you bored with broccoli? Find yourself craving a vine ripened tomato? Can’t get those visions of simmering butter beans and crowder peas out of your head? And what about that vinegary whiff of ...

The time to enjoy Southern peas is finally upon us. Every summer brings forth a plethora of pods filled to the hilt with tiny spheres of different colors. Here is your guide to this iconic Southern ...

Field peas are the South's most varied legume, but many cooks never venture past black-eyed peas and might not realize there are other choices. We should, however. Although black-eyed peas are good, ...

Fall seems like the right time for beans — the kind you soak overnight and cook up with flavorful vegetables and meat. Harvests of beans and peas wind down by fall, and we’re blessed with a bounty of ...

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Call them the South's delicious little secret. Lady, Pink-Eye, Zipper and Dixie Lee are just a few of the members of a large legume family variously known as Southern peas, cowpeas or field peas.

“IT BETTER WORK, PAULA!” was my editor’s response when I proposed doing black-eyed peas for my Instant Pot recipe this month. All caps, just like that. At first I was confused—of course the recipe ...

Few things beat down home country-cooking. Purple hull or crowder peas simmering on the stove, okra and tomatoes sizzling in the skillet and corn bread baking in the oven signal that good eating is ...