As someone born-and-raised in the South with nearly a decade of experience working in the Southern Living Test Kitchens, I ...

And to this day, I use her “salt the skillet” trick with every pan of cornbread I make. When it comes to Southern cooking, grandmothers always know best.

The titular character, played by Ray McKinnon, was driven to preserve the Southern way of life. During a monologue, he discussed how very wrong it was that so many people think cornbread should be ...