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Southern cooking has always been about more than recipes. It’s about making people feel welcome, using what you have on hand, and gathering around the table without making life more complicated than it needs to be. Those ideas are at the heart of Grits and Gouda, the popular recipe website created by Alabama cookbook author […]

A Brady Bunch-Inspired Dinner with a Retro Twist Some television moments become part of pop culture forever for reasons no one could have predicted. In The Brady Bunch episode “The Personality Kid” (season 3, episode 6), Peter Brady becomes convinced he has no real personality of his own. In an attempt to stand out, he […]

When we interviewed MasterChef winner and pastry chef Whitney Miller for the Spring 2026 issue of Pretty, she shared one of her favorite springtime recipes with us: traditional English-style scones with a Southern twist. Whitney adds buttermilk, which gives these tender scones a delicate tang and a soft interior—perfect with jam and fresh cream.

This post contains an affiliate link. We received a digital review copy of the cookbook with the recipe for mango pineapple frozen whip from the publisher. By February, winter can start to feel relentless. The days are short, the food is heavy, and everything seems to skew beige. This is usually when we crave something […]