About Skillet & Sage

Skillet & Sage explores regional dishes from across the United States, with recipes organized by state. Browse the recipe map to discover local favorites and bring them to your kitchen.

There is no test kitchen and no staff here. Every dish on the site is one that households in its own region have cooked for generations, and every recipe is written for an ordinary home kitchen — a domestic oven, a stove with four burners, pans people already own.

Where a recipe comes from

Each article starts from a document rather than from another food blog: a community cookbook, a newspaper food column, a church or grange compilation, a library scan of a manuscript. The source is named in the article itself, so it can be read first-hand. Where the record is thin, or the story usually told about a dish turns out to be unsupported by it, the article says so instead of filling the gap.

The method is written out in full from that record: pan sizes, heat levels and visual cues, because those are the parts that decide whether a dish works. "Until the butter stops foaming" survives a different stove in a way that "four minutes" does not. Nothing is left to depend on the cook already knowing what to expect.

Nutrition figures are calculated from the listed ingredients and are an estimate offered as a courtesy. They are not dietary advice, and they cannot account for the brand of stock you bought or how much oil stayed in the pan.

About the pictures

The images are illustrations generated with an image model, and each one is labelled as such in its own caption. They show the dish and the stages of the method; none of them is a photograph of a kitchen, and none is an archival photograph.

How the site pays for itself

Skillet & Sage carries advertising. Ads are served by third-party networks and are labelled as advertising where they appear; no advertiser sees a recipe before it is published, and no advertiser has ever been given a say in what gets written or how a product is described. What the advertising means for your data is set out in the privacy policy.

Corrections and questions

If a recipe does not behave the way it is written, that is worth knowing about. Corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly, and a recipe that changes materially after publication says so.

Write to hello@skilletandsage.cooking.