What to Order: Southern Hands’ veggies, pork chops and cornbread
The Kam style pork chop at Southern Hands Homestyle Cooking is a center-cut pork chop that’s deep fried and smothered in gravy, and topped with bell pepper and onions. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Jennifer Chandler
Jennifer Chandler has been a restaurateur, a cookbook author, a food stylist, a writer and a TV and radio personality.
The story of Southern Hands Homestyle Cooking starts with cornbread dressing.
Betty Baskin spent most of her life as a hairstylist, working at the Warren’s Original Hair Styles salon on Thomas Street in North Memphis. The proprietors of the adjacent cafe knew how good her dressing was, and started asking her to make a pan every day or so for them to sell in their tiny restaurant. Before long, Betty’s dressing was the most popular item on the menu.
Fast forward more then 15 years later, and Baskin’s cornbread dressing is still one of the most popular items on a restaurant menu. But this time it’s her family’s restaurant: Southern Hands Homestyle Cooking.
Baskin died in 2018, but her restaurant has thrived and expanded as her children have carried on her legacy. The four restaurants serve Southern soul food made from scratch following Baskin’s tried-and-true recipes.
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