Cornbread is a variety of quick bread (a bread leavened chemically, rather than by yeast) containing cornmeal.

Cornbread, often called skillet bread, is a traditional staple of rural cuisine in the United States of America, especially in the Southern United States.

There are numerous regional names for this flat cornmeal item - johnnycakes, johnny cakes, jonnycake, ashcake, battercake, corn cake, cornpone, hoecake, hoe cake, journey cake, mush bread, pone, Shawnee cake, jonakin, and jonikin. The origin of the name is unclear, possibly from 'journey cake' as a bread easily prepared by travellers, or as a corruption of 'Shawnee cake', or based on a forgotten Indian word.

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L.A. Times - Food & Dining

So many ways to chill
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:20:07 -0700
This May 2007 article argued that you can dress 'em up or dress 'em down, but one thing is certain: In a quick and easy salad or an elegant, four-part dessert, cucumbers are simply the coolest things around. Who doesn't love a cucumber?
Cookbook politics: Democrats, Republicans in the kitchen
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Out on the fringes of the campaign trail, the partisan cookbook is a perennial candidate. Want a cookie? "NOT ONLY do I eat, I also am a Democrat," wrote Frank Sinatra in an intro to 1960's "Many Happy Returns: The Democrats' Cook Book, or How to Cook a G.O.P. Goose" (the sales of which helped buy TV air time for candidates). "Not only should every Democrat own a copy of this book, but he should load up all his or her friends, and even smuggle some copies into Pasadena and other points where the enemy is strong and square."
Los Angeles taco trucks can stay put again
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
A judge overturns a recent county supervisors' rule limiting how long the mobile food vendors can remain parked in one spot. Taco trucks are back in full force -- at least for now.

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