Hush puppies at The Southern.
Photo: Sky Full of Bacon
You may never have heard of Garden & Gun, we hadn’t until a couple of years ago, but for a certain class of mama, there couldn’t be anything prouder than seeing her boy in there. Garden & Gun, which as you may have guessed is published in the South, is one of the best food magazines out there, and in this issue, one of the things they write about is hush puppies. And a Chicago chef who makes them, name of Cary Taylor at The Southern. Taylor, last seen here revolutionizing containers, explains the secrets of great hushpuppies: “Don’t beat the batter too much or it will get rubbery,” he says. “You want to keep the hush puppies fluffy.” There’s a recipe included, which you can see Garden & Gun]
