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 ...

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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 ...

Every year about this time, Vince Hayward, CEO and fourth-generation owner of L.H. Hayward & Co., gives out bags of red beans and green split peas. The 95-year-old Louisiana company, based just ...

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.