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Cornbread and Buttermilk, a Southern Puppy story.
“Just Two Crazy Kids and a Puppy”.
The Cornbread and Buttermilk: Southern Dogs Manifesto
“Food, Family & the Faithful Dog”
“Here in the South, the kitchen may be the heart of the home,
but the dog lies faithfully beside the hearth.
We believe:
- A Southern dog is more than a pet—they’re kin.
- Dogs are woven into our stories, fields, porches, and family traditions.
- Training a puppy is a sacred rite of patience and love.
- A dog is a bridge between generations—Granddaddy’s bird dog, Mama’s porch guardian, our children’s playmate.
- The South teaches us to live slow, savor moments, return to the land—and a dog teaches us the same.
- Kitchens, gardens, and hunting fields share one truth: life tastes sweeter when shared with a good dog.
- We honor the dogs who came before, celebrate the pups just starting out, and cherish the lessons they teach us.
We will laugh, learn, and love alongside this new life in our household.
Here, we lift up:
- Stories of the dogs who shaped our memories.
- Practical wisdom for raising and training pups with gentleness and respect.
- Tales from our region—coon dogs in the hollers, bird dogs in pine country, yard hounds by the clothesline.
- The way dogs bring families together and root us deeper to a place.
Our pledge:
To tell stories that smell of wood smoke, wet leaves, biscuits on Sunday morning—and a puppy asleep under the table.
To teach with humility.
To speak with gratitude.
To welcome every listener to the porch, where puppies tumble in the grass and memories live on.
This new chapter is for our puppy—Truffles, and for all Southern family dogs, past and future.
Thanks to John, “The Cleaning Guy”, for keeping the studio clean and fresh, he can be reached at (404) 980-9327
Send Cornbread a voice mail at his Speakpipe link https://www.speakpipe.com/Cornbread
Episodes
91 episodes
Truffles Meets Santa & the Parks That Hold Our Hearts
In this episode of Cornbread & Buttermilk, we do what decent people often do when the season turns—we put the dog in Jasper the Jeep and go looking for meaning in an unlikely place. Truffles, still young enough to believe the world is mostl...
Truffles Goes to School: Lessons from Jenny, Mike, and the Road to Discipline
There comes a moment in every young hound’s life when the good Lord nudges them—ever so gently—toward the straight and narrow. And in our little corner of Canton, where the pines lean in like old aunties waiting for gossip, that moment arrived ...
Parks, a Pup, and Horses in the Morning Mist.
Now, folks, every dog’s got to start somewhere, and Truffles chose Episode 89 to make his big studio debut—walking in like a four-legged celebrity who already expects his own green room and a bowl of Dr. Marty’s finest puppy recipe.Papa ...
Family and The Faithful Dog
“Food, Family & the Faithful Dog”Here in the South, the kitchen may be the heart of the home,but the dog lies faithfully beside the hearth.We believe:A Southern dog is more than a pet—they’re kin.
The Secrets of Sweet Potato Pone
Down here, when the trees turn the color of sweet tea and the fields start whisperin’ of frost, folks know it’s time to ease into the rhythm of fall. The front porch becomes a sanctuary again — quilt over the knees, pecan shells crackin’, and t...
MawMaw’s Dutch Oven and the Cajun Story of Filé & Okra
Welcome back, y’all, to Cornbread & Buttermilk. Tonight, we’re lifting the lid on a pot that’s been simmering for centuries — a Cajun gumbo, thick with history and flavored by tradition.We’ll trace the story of sassafras leaves, once...
A secret Little Taste of Provence in Canton
There’s a street in Canton where the world tilts just slightly, and if you step through the doors of C’est la Vie, you find yourself no longer in a small Georgia town but in a place where eggs are gathered with reverence, butter melts like suns...
Root of Mystery: Ginseng’s Short Season in the Mountains
There are places in the Appalachian mountains where the air holds secrets, and the soil keeps its own counsel. In the shadows of the laurel thickets, a humble plant lies waiting—ginseng, the root of power and promise. Folks call it “sang,” whis...
Devil Gotta Sweet Tooth: Gingerbread in the South
The old house creaked as if it had something to confess, and the air inside was thick with the perfume of molasses, ginger, and woodsmoke. On the hearth, a pan of gingerbread rose slow and steady, its sweetness laced with the bite of spice — a ...
Sweet Potato Salvation
Brothers and sisters, gather close ‘round this table of remembrance, for I bring you tidings of a root born of clay and sunshine, humble in its shape yet mighty in its gift. The Lord Himself planted the sweet potato in the red earth of Dixie, t...
Pomegranates & Berries: Nature’s Jewels of Health
Friends, today we’re stepping away from the skillet and into the garden — into a place where the colors themselves feel like medicine. Think of the deep blues of blueberries, the ruby sparkle of pomegranate seeds, the dark, glossy shine of blac...
Talking Rock, Good Dog Treats
In the cool of a Talking Rock morning, when the mist still clings to the hills and the dogs begin their restless pacing, Buttermilk ties on her faded apron. She knows they’re waiting—not for scraps, but for something fashioned with care. The ol...
Bloom Where You’re Planted—Even in a Rental”
Step through the garden gate with Cornbread & Buttermilk, where the paths are lined with roses, the air hums with bees, and the promise of green things yet to come stirs the soul. In this week’s episode, we wander through ten gardens withou...
The Secret Sounds of Southern Nights
The Southern night doesn’t fall; it settles.It seeps in slow, like molasses on a cold morning, curling around porch posts, weaving through the lattice of an old screen door. The sky, once ablaze with the last light of day, softens to a v...
Plastic Ain’t Southern: Health, Home, and Eating Clean Without Going Broke
“Y’all, it don’t matter how fresh your collards are if you’re storing ‘em in something leechin’ poison into the greens. That Tupperware from 1983 might just be the villain in your kitchen.”Cornbread & Buttermilk pull back the curtain...
Pushing Back the Wilderness
There comes a time, every so often, when a man looks at the unruly wild just beyond his porch and feels the old ache of Eden. Not the grand paradise, no—but something simpler, humbler. A patch of earth that minds its manners. A bit of order wre...
Cornbread and Buttermilk in Paris: From Possum Hollow to Le Procope
Y’all, hold onto your berets—Cornbread & Buttermilk are heading to Paris!In this whimsical new episode, Cornbread takes a leaf from Jed Clampett’s book and swaps his rocking chair for a sidewalk café in Saint-Germain. With Buttermilk...
The Boy Who Talked to Orchids
Down in the shadowy green thickets of a Bourbon Island morning, where the orchid vines twist like old secrets and the air is thick with promise and perfume, a boy once climbed up to meet a bloom. He had no gloves, no knife, no bookish learning....
The Watermelon Gospel — Seeds, Storms, and Sweet Summer Thunder
“Good mornin’, Buttermilk — and good mornin’ to all y’all listening under this wide July sky. We’ve had a stretch of beautiful thunderstorms this week — the kind that come on like a hymn, with thunder grumblin’ in the distance and lightning fla...
Blessed and Beard-Worthy: Southern Souls in the Spotlight
Somewhere between the hush of Spanish moss and the gospel hum of cast iron cooling on a windowsill, the South whispered her secrets into the hands of cooks who were listening. Hands that learned to measure by memory, taste by touch, and stir wi...
Hardbound and Heaven-Sent: A Birthday Gift Worth Savoring
There’s something about a hardbound cookbook that feels like it was meant to outlive you It doesn’t blink or chirp or scroll—it just sits there, waiting for your hands and your hunger.This week on Cornbread & Buttermilk, ...
“The Bermuda Sanctuary: A Window Over the Sea”
There are places where the ocean isn’t just water, but memory — long, blue, and endless. Bermuda is like that. A stone in the Atlantic, not large, not loud, but full of stories. The kind of place where the past doesn’t lie still, it shifts with...
The Secrets of Martha’s Garden & Memory’s Roots
The sun’s dipped low now, casting that long Southern light where everything—every weed, every wild bloom—seems touched by gold. And as we close this chapter of Cornbread & Buttermilk, our hands may still be clean, but our hearts are dusted ...
The Secret to a Buttermilk Complexion
Now, sugar, I been tellin’ folks for years—you don’t get skin like Buttermilk’s from no fancy jar on a department store shelf. No ma’am. That glow don’t come from a bottle; it’s simmered low and slow in a cast iron pot, stirred up with love, la...
Four Horsemen” of foodborne illness: Salmonella, Listeria, Bird Flu, and Norovirus.
Now back in the day, folks didn’t need no fancy scores posted on the wall. Mama could take one look at a kitchen and tell you quicker than a June bug on a porch light if it was fit to eat from. She used to say, ‘If the kitchen ain’t clean, the ...
