Derby Eats!

Like most regional cuisines, Kentucky’s cooking has had many influences. Native Americans, there when the first settlers arrives, introduced corn and many of their uses for it with cornmeal, grits and hominy. Settlers from the Britsh Isles brought farming principles and techniques for preserving hand and distilling whiskey. African Americans played an important part in the development, serving as cooks in the South. Their use of seasonings, a variety of greens and okra, all have direct links to Africa.

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