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I showed up at the gate of the C.F. Sauer Co. in Richmond this past summer pronouncing myself something of a mayonnaise scholar: “I wrote my master’s thesis on pimento cheese,” I told Erin Hatcher, who oversees the company’s Duke’s Mayonnaise label. As any Southerner knows, mayonnaise is perhaps pimento...

I didn’t know that I could feel this way about mayonnaise. Collectively, we at HuffPost Taste absolutely believe that there are foods to carry flaming torches for. For some of us, it’s green chile. For others, avocados. We all have pretty special and important feelings about cheese. Until recently, mayo...

When we dropped the results of a very impromptu mayonnaise taste test last month, we got some comments on Facebook and Twitter. First, there were the mayonnaise haters — who we quickly dismissed for their lack of condiment common sense. Who are you people? The second, third, fourth and fifth comments? We heard...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. RUSTY HAMLIN, a sunburned bear of a chef, held out a fragrant bowl of liquid and waved his hand over it theatrically, in the universal gesture for “take a whiff of this, pal.” “Moonshine vinaigrette,” he said. Even though Mr. Hamlin was in the midst of preparing...

From potlucks to lunch pails, pimento cheese is the stuff of everyday Southern life. Doesn’t matter whether their first taste came from the local grocer or Grandma’s kitchen, most Southerners are attached to their ’menta cheese memories, and Sarah O’Kelley, co-owner and co-chef of the Glass Onion in Charleston, South...