Biscuits

No bread is more misunderstood than the lowly southern biscuit. Fast-food restaurants across America have made biscuits an everyday word throughout the country, but they have been taken so far out of context that even respectable southern restaurants are now serving biscuits at dinner, with steaks or fried fish, when yeast rolls and corn bread would be appropriate.

The text and recipes in Bill Neal’s books are excellent, and both Elizabeth David and Karen Hess have tackled the histo