Southern supermarkets are special, stocking local and small-batch products that give our recipes extra flavor. These 12 items are always in the buggy of our food editors.

Southerners are experts at mixing the old with the new. We polled our readers to find out a few things a Southerner would simply never throw away. Here’s what they had to say.

We talk to Chef Fred Tiess who advises rinsing beans for salads, draining beans for dishes that are cooked, and cooking some beans in the liquid they are packaged in to help maintain the flavor of a ...