The name “Hoe Cake” comes from the practice of cooking the batter on the blade of a farming hoe and also from the 17th century term “hoe,” referring to a type of cooking griddle.

As a snack in the fields, slaves cultivating hemp at the Farmington Plantation sustained themselves with hoe cake, said John Castro, the chef at Winston’s Restaurant at Sullivan University. This ...

More times than not we cook out of necessity, to get dinner on the table quickly and without fuss. For those of us who enjoy the process of cooking and learning different techniques we like to slow it ...