These two comfort foods are perfect in Georgia during the fall and winter. Thanks to a new bill, they became state foods on ...

Red Oak Stew Crew member Billy Waller, left, watches Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell wield the paddle at last year’s Brunswick Stew Day in Richmond. (BOB BROWN/Associated Press) ...

A Brunswick stew from Phil Pair, left, came in second at this year’s Taste of Brunswick Festival. Kevin Pair, right, came in first. Stewie, the county’s mascot, smiles in the center.

Brunswick stew is a hearty tomato-based stew that includes pork, vegetables and traditionally small game such as squirrel or rabbit. Brunswick, Georgia, and Brunswick County, Virginia, both lay ...

In Virginia, Brunswick stew is one of the oldest reasons for an argument. Like pork barbecue, with which it is intimately associated, a good Brunswick stew is both one of the simplest things on ear… ...

Brunswick stew comes from Brunswick County, Va., where it was first made or where there are claims the mixture was first developed. A highway marker proclaims: “According to local tradition ...

Brunswick stew is the beefier cousin, the origins of which have been debated for about a century. Some claim it was founded in Brunswick County, Virginia, and others point to Brunswick, Ga.

What goes into Brunswick stew depends on where you are in the south. Chef Pamela Roberts and guest chef Yvette Kerns from Petite Cook Charlotte make North Carolina Brunswick Stew and Cornbread ...