Quite suddenly, this recipe became a memorial. I know cornbread can just be cornbread, but Pableaux’s recipe was love actualized. This cornbread comes to us from one Achille Leon Hebert ...

1. Mix together the corn meal mix, egg, oil and buttermilk. 2. Add milk — should be the consistency of pancake batter. 3.

Typically with this column, readers send in recipes, and I cook them in my kitchen ... "Barbecue, beans and cornbread," which is a pork and beans and barbecue concoction on a cornbread pancake ...