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Bowl season is the most festive time of the year of the college football calendar, featuring a slate of strange game sponsors and even stranger celebrations. But one bowl game on Wednesday may be taking things a bit too far. Continue reading on si.com. Photo by: Jim Dedmon, USA Today...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Wisconsin Badgers captured the Duke’s Mayo Bowl and the trophy that came along with it. And then they broke it. While dancing around to celebrate his team’s 42-28 victory over Wake Forest on Wednesday, quarterback Graham Mertz dropped the football-shaped piece of Lenox crystal, leaving it...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Wake Forest will meet Wisconsin in the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte. This is the 19th year of the bowl game, but the first year it is sponsored by Carolinas-founded Duke's Mayonnaise. Continue reading on wcnc.com. 

Ashley Strickland Freeman follows the Duke's Real Mayonnaise diet. Whether it is to make a three-layer strawberry-rhubarb cake or rum-spiked Bananas Foster bread moist, peach-filled crepes extra soft or Nashville hot chicken pieces tender and serve them with fluffy buttermilk cornbread waffles, the zippy condiment is her secret ingredient. Continue...

Charlotte, North Carolina (September 2, 2020) – The Charlotte Sports Foundation (CSF) today announced that this year’s Duke’s Mayo Classic will be played at Wake Forest University’s Truist Field in Winston-Salem, N.C. The 2020 Duke’s Mayo Classic is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 26, with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish taking...

As you know, we take tailgating very seriously here at Southern Living—so who better to advise you on this year’s festivities than a couple of seasoned professionals? Award-winning pitmasters and grill experts Tay Nelson of Bobby's BBQ & Seasoning in South Carolina and Matthew Statham of SAW's BBQ in Alabama know...

  (Washington, DC – Monday, May 25th, 2020) – After almost two months of successful sandwich slinging in Blagden Alley, celebrated cocktail wizard-turned-hero-of-heroes, Paul Taylor, the brains behind the Columbia Room’s “Get a Hero Be a Hero” pop-up, is thrilled to announce his new partnership with everyone’s favorite mayonnaise, Duke’s, and everyone’s favorite hot sauce, Crystal....

A hundred years ago, an enterprising woman named Eugenia Duke started selling sandwiches made her homemade mayonnaise to soldiers stationed near Greenville, South Carolina. By 1919 she was selling over 10,000 sandwiches a day, making her a successful and profitable entrepreneur in an era when women had little leverage in the business...

In 2018 Chef Dolester Miles, who prefers to go by Chef Dol, won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef for her culinary creations at one of Alabama’s flagship restaurants: Highlands Bar and Grill in Birmingham. She makes the desserts for three dining establishments in the region, including French...

I can’t imagine a summer picnic without mayonnaise—in the potato salad, the veggie dips, the coleslaw, and yes, even on the french fries. It feels like a great dollop of pure Americana in a creamy, satisfying sort of way. But like a lot of what makes our country so successful,...

Here in the South, when cooks talk about pimento cheese and macaroni salad and similar mayonnaise-based foods, the discussion invariably comes around to everyone’s favorite brand of mayonnaise. And the chances are good that the answer will be Duke’s, created in South Carolina by Eugenia Thomas Duke in 1917. Continue...

There are some pantry staples that arguably get more play than others. You’re likely to reach for those cans of tomatoes and bag of rice long before diving into that mystery bag of beans buried in the back of your cabinet. But there’s one pantry staple that’s ready for its time in...