Cornmeal, sorghum (both syrup and grain), pawpaws, pecans, buttermilk, sassafras, sweet potatoes: These became the engines that pushed all of that classic French technique to a purpose on my menus.
If you’ve never made lemon curd before, or a lemon meringue pie from scratch, you can kill both of those birds with this single stone: a lemon meringue pie. Because, like love and marriage and horses ...