Ashley M. Biggers

Ashley M. Biggers

Ashley M. Biggers is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her writing on travel, culture, and wellness has appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including CNN Travel, USA Today 10Best, Lonely Planet, AFAR, and Self. She has authored three books—Eco-Travel New Mexico, 100 Things to Do in Albuquerque Before You Die, and Secret Albuquerque. She earned her master’s degree in mass communication from Arizona State University.

Alabama white sauce might look like ranch dressing, but it certainly doesn't taste like ranch dressing.

Though it may look like ranch, Alabama white sauce bears little flavor resemblance to the salad dressing—and we have former railway worker Big Bob Gibson to thank for the convention-busting, and often overlooked, white sauce.

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“It’s a food that kept ancestors alive. It’s a survival food, but it’s also one of colonization and subjugation.”

Fry bread contains only four ingredients—flour, baking powder, salt, and water—but behind this extraordinarily simple recipe is a complex, and tragic, history.

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