Black-Eyed Peas with Greens and Potlikker and Fried Cornbread

I am a product of the South, and I love my home and its food. I also abhor this region’s shameful, inhumane historic practices of slavery, Jim Crow, and the de facto segregation and racism that persist today. This recipe is an incredible dish born of necessity during the darkest days of slavery. Enslaved cooks were understandably always looking for ways to put food on the table for their families. They also worked the land and therefore kne