Participate in the Mississippi Community Cookbook Project!

Help out with USM's Mississippi Community Cookbook Project.  They are looking for cookbooks published by Mississippi churches, youth groups, teacher-parent associations, and other community groups from 1900 to 1970. They are digitizing them and offering them online. To share your recollections about cooking from or contributing to a Mississippi community cookbook, to volunteer to be interviewed, or to donate a cookbook to the collection, please contact the project coordinator Andrew Haley at mscommunitycookbook@gmail.com. 

IBM Chef Watson

The brain that beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! can now help you make dinner too. The Watson Web app, formerly in beta, is now available to anyone.

Create unique dishes with Watson and share them with your friends (and me)!

Oprah's Favorite Things: A Little Heat with Your Sweet

Congratulations to D'Evereaux Foods in Natchez. Their all-natural jalapeno jams made Oprah's Favorite Things list. If you want to see if they would make your list, you can buy some online or see what stores in your area offers it online or by calling 601.301.5522. (The company also offers hot sauces.)

Ashleigh Aldridge, 25, runs the company - and it's quite the family affair. So congrats to all of the Aldridges!