John Martin Taylor (aka Hoppin' John) is a great Southern cook, cookbook author, and food raconteur. He wrote perhaps the definitive book on frying, Fearless Frying Cookbook, but today's Sunday Brunch recipe for cornbread is adapted from another terrific book he wrote, Hoppin' John's Charleston, Beaufort, & Savannah: Dining at Home in the Lowcountry. In the headnote in the book, Taylor calls this the best cornbread you'll ever eat. Coming from Hoppin' John, that's high praise, indeed.
Ingredient note: If you don't have a source for stone-ground, whole-grain cornmeal, you can order it off Hoppin' John's site.
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