NEWTON COUNTY, Texas — Families spent the sunny Saturday in the Shankleville Community for the 8th Annual Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival. The jammed-packed schedule of events included pea picking ...

Crowder peas, cow peas, black-eyed peas, pink-eye peas, purple hull peas -- these Southern peas start making their appearance in the market this time of year. Because they love a long, hot growing ...

Field peas are the South's most varied legume, but many cooks never venture past black-eyed peas and might not realize there are other choices. We should, however. Although black-eyed peas are good, ...

During the years I lived in the mid-Atlantic, when I responded to the region’s summer heat with inexhaustible strings of choice words, it helped to remember that my most beloved summer crop, a little ...

Southern pink lady peas are here! If you are not from the South, you are probably scratching your head about now and wondering what in the world I’m talking about. “Peas” have a special meaning in ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

This method works for any type of field pea, although more mature peas (with drier hulls) will take slightly longer to cook. Okra deepens the flavor of the pot liquor here, and the spent pods, for ...