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I’d never heard of swamp cabbage.

The reunion menu will be familiar too: fried or smoked mullet, swamp cabbage, new potatoes, collard greens cooked with turnip roots and a little pork, cheese grits and hoe cake.

Women cooked up swamp cabbage and poke salad.

Rawlings was a noted cook, and the book includes four recipes for swamp cabbage as well as recipes for game, seafood, grapefruit marmalade, mayhaw jelly and many Southern classics.

As McMansions replace craftsman bungalows and highways slice up historic neighborhoods, so go the recipes for swamp cabbage and sofkee.