Fresh Southern Cooking - Southern Breakfast Foods - Healthy Comfort Food

When you’re ready for a “like-to-eat road trip,” eat manly at Green Palm Inn, where our southern fare is healthy, homemade breakfast foods and southern cooking. Less [-]

Innkeeper Diane McCray concurs with R.W. Apple, Jr.’s view that truly fresh food is part of the “revenge of living well.” The health-conscious innkeeper will encourage you to take a post-breakfast walk or walk to dinner reservations. R.W. Apple, Jr., the renowned New York Times food critic, advocated “fresh, calendar-honoring ingredients” long before the organic foods discussion arrived in today’s food markets. This southern-cooking innkeeper features fresh Southern breakfast foods, healthy foods and great Southern cooking!

Championing healthy food, McCray’s gourmand Southern breakfast menus features fresh orange juice, farm fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. Two of the inn’s bell ringer breakfast dishes are the popular Mexican Strata and Baked Banana French Toast. Traveler reviews reiterate the Savannah breakfast, communal table dining, and great southern cooking are among the breakfast inn highlights. Less [-]

Green Palm Inn’s home-style southern breakfast menu includes fresh, locally farmed produce, artisanal cheeses, and pork -- still the meat of choice in the South. Lodging guests arrive in “walking dress” each morning at the southern inn’s breakfast table, perfectly set with the warmth and joy that exudes southern hospitality. The southern experience is redoubled with fresh, home-style Southern cooking, and farm fresh local foods, local fruits and local vegetables as much as practical. Eat breakfast at the inn (free) and then a little personal fitness walking along the Savannah River harbor, beautiful Broughton Street or City Market.

Desserts-fresh-made happen (everyday!), just for guests … serving up a quick and delightful afternoon pick me up. The aroma of home style, home-baked desserts diffuses in the entire house. Intense. Rewarding. Charming. . Less [-]

The Inn’s sweets table is a great tribute to cross-cultural friends and guests. A miniature version of the wedding Cookie Table (everyday!), it's one of those traditions that make America and Savannah great. Savannah’s American medley of nationalities takes the best from each culture. The best at Green Palm Inn are our favorite, famed family cookie recipes. According to food critic, Suzanne Martinson, "Nobody knows the exact origin of the tradition of the Cookie Table.... It may be Italian, or Slovak, or Polish, or Croation or Greek. The Scandinavians may get involved and the Native Americans, too. The Germans do cookies and so do the Irish and the Spanish. If I have left anyone out, like the English, add them to the cookie equation, too." We anticipate new guest reviews with the question: “Were the cookies good?” The answer is, of course, “The cookies are fabulous!”

Southern fare, such as hot pepper jelly with local goat cheese, dots the light hors d’oeuvre menu, paired with complementary wine in the afternoon. Less [-]

This southern innkeeper personally chooses southern recipes and Georgia-grown produce whenever possible. Organic foods are on the menu, as much as practical. Diane carries on the tradition: Savannah hostesses always pull out all the stops! The southern breakfast inn’s southern cooking is in keeping with traditional regional recipes, heightened and brightened by an innovative twist.

Eager to get you to restaurants that offer an exciting palate, Diane will point out a few somewhat-non-touristy-places to eat dinner or lunch.

Recommended American Foods, Southern Foods,
Savannah & Southern Cookbooks: Less [-]

Savannah Entertains by Martha Nesbit

Savannah Seasons by Elizabeth Terry

Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Her Savannah Table by Sema Wilkes, John T. Edge, and Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse

Savannah a LA Carte: A Savannah Symphony Women's Guild Cookbook by Maryam Muhammad Abdullah

The Gingerbread House cookbook: Recipes from Savannah by Janet Perkins Galloway

Biscuits, Spoonbread and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal

Pirates’ House Cookbook by Sarah Gaede. Located in Trustee Garden, The Pirates’ House (1754), Savannah’s old seaman's lodge, is mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.