Ole Miss Black-Eyed Pea and Sausage Cornbread

I haven’t been a football fan ever since I hung up my own helmet after playing guard for three years on the high school team, but when I heard about the veritable tailgate feasts thrown by students and alumni every season on the Ole Miss campus, in Oxford, my interest was revived. Groaning buffet tables of barbecue, roasts, casseroles, fried chicken, hot dips, pimento cheese sandwiches and sausage biscuits, rich layer cakes and elaborate pecan pies—the array of Southern dishes is staggering