Nashville Turnip Greens with Ham Hock

One Alfred Leland Crabb, writing about Nashville, Tennessee, some fifty years ago, proclaimed the city the turnip green and hog jowl center of the universe, and traced its obsession with the dish back to 1810. While I’m not sure the turnip greens I’ve eaten in Nashville are necessarily superior to those simmered with ham hock or other side meat in every other state of the Confederacy, I must say that a mess of greens once included on a “meat-n-three” platter at Nashville’s venerable Loveles