About Us

Regional Remembrance. The Heirloom Southern Cooking Institute welcomes everyone who appreciates genuine scratch Southern cooking and true Southern folkways. Heirloom Southern Cooking is Southern folk cuisine -- the cultural heritage foods treasured in the Southern United States. It reflects the God given bounty of the American South, regional remembrance and our people's international culinary heritage. Southern Folk Cuisine is pasture, pond, garden, gulf, and sky. It is the firstborn of classic  American fine cuisine. 

 Restorative Creativity. You are invited to come earn your bragging rights in our immersive Heirloom Southern Cooking Institute Workshops! Heirloom Southern Cooking is a sensory rich experience meaningfully connecting us to our shared culinary heritage. Join us to understand how and why! Be rejuvenated, confident and knowledgably equipped to nourish yourself & others. Learn folk culinary techniques for creating light, buttery Southern biscuits, a smoky velvety pot of Southern Field Peas, dark complex Louisiana Gumbo and a host of other heritage delights -- entirely from scratch!

Discover & Dine. What stories do our recipes reveal? Our immersive multisensory Traveling Trunks invite you to explore our regional culinary folk history via sight, sound, touch and taste. Book an Heirloom Southern Tasting & Ritual Foodway Experience. Taste the legendary flavors and aromas of the American Deep South. Our culinary heritage is triumphantly delicious! Hungry? Pick-up & enjoy mouth-watering Southern classics -- by the forkful.  There are no new fangled fusions here!  

Most importantly, welcome your friends & loved ones. Say grace. Taste memories. Reconnect with the Heirloom Southern Cooking Institute!

You are warmly welcomed!

Contact us &  we'll see you around the table! 

"Cooking teaches, cooking heals and cooking loves." Mother Emily Meggett

Taste a memory!

Experience the legendary flavors and aromas of the American Deep South. Our culinary heritage is triumphantly delicious!