Super simple, but big on flavor, zipper peas are an irresistible classic Southern side dish. Full of summery goodness, zipper peas, sometimes called cream peas, are just one type of Southern pea often ...

Butter beans, lady cream peas, zipper peas, crowder peas: many Southerners have distinct memories of these local staples during summertime suppers. That’s because these varieties grow with reckless ...

Unless you grow them yourself, fresh field peas are most easily found at local farmer’s markets, though expect to pay a premium price for them when they are already shelled for you. On a recent visit ...

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, ...

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 ...

Call them the South's delicious little secret. Lady, Pink-Eye, Zipper and Dixie Lee are just a few of the members of a large legume family variously known as Southern peas, cowpeas or field peas.

When most people think of peas, they typically conjure up the image of the round, grass-green peas that rolled around on their childhood plates, occasionally mixed in with other vegetables such as ...