Hush Puppies Food History

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Hush puppies food history. Hush puppies are believed to have originated in the southern united states where they are a traditional dish. The oldest story is that hushpuppies originated in the settlement of nouvell orleans later called new orleans louisiana shortly after 1727. An even older version is that hush puppies were invented in the early 1700 s by nuns from france who came to louisiana and started making french croquettes with cornmeal which they called croquettes de maise. This origin story doesn t account for the fanciful name but it seems like a likely beginning to the food itself.

She wrote what is considered one of the most important southern cookbooks cross creek cookery written after she moved to cross creek florida. Released in 1957 hush puppies were america s first non athletic casual shoes and by 1963 one in ten americans were said to own a pair. They were created by a group of ursuline nuns who had come from france. They are typically made with cornmeal flour egg buttermilk baking soda and onion though various spices and other ingredients including garlic and peppers can be added.

But i would much rather eat a hushpuppy than wear one. The first recorded use of the word hush puppy dates to 1899. The name is often attributed to hunters fishermen or other cooks who would fry some basic cornmeal mixture possibly that they had been bread coating or battering their own food with and feed it to their dogs to hush the puppies during cook outs or fish fries. These days no nonsense hushpuppies can be found as far as mel s fish shack in los angeles and snappy s shrimp in chicago.

Hush puppies have sometimes been attributed to majorie kinnan rawlings the pulitzer prize winning writer of the yearling.