Southern Pea Salad with Herbed Buttermilk Dressing is a fresh, flavorful twist on a classic Southern side. Made with tender white acre or purple hull peas, crisp summer vegetables, and tossed in a ...

Growing up as a daughter of parents who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II, I found summer to be much more than trips to the lake and July Fourth celebrations. It was the time to ...

Makes 6 servings as a side dish, or 4 as an entrée over rice. Recipe is by Cynthia L. Nobles, who says, “Like most Southern peas, purple-hulls came to the U.S. through the African slave trade, and ...

The seeds may be cream, buff, brown, black or spotted. Some varieties have a different-colored area on the seed called the eye. Southern peas are often divided into four groups: purple hull, crowder, ...

They sounded interesting - a little bit like a black-eyed pea but with more flavor. But what the heck do you do with a purplehull pea? When Vernon Conrad told us he had them coming in by the bushel at ...