Chicken and Cornbread Dumplings

Adrienne Cheatman puts her spin on the historic dish of chicken and dumplings with this savory, rustic chicken and cornbread dumplings recipe.

Starting around the 1500s in the South, Indigenous Americans formed strong alliances with newly displaced Africans. In a sort of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” situation, they shared important skills such as how to cultivate and use local crops, including nixtamalizing corn and various methods for preparing it.