Hoppin' John's® is owned by cookbook author John Martin Taylor, best known for his southern culinary expertise and his stone-ground grits and cornmeal. Hoppin' John opened his culinary bookstore in 1986 in Charleston, South Carolina, but switched to website and phone sales in 1999. He is the author of four cookbooks, including Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking (20th Anniversary Edition now available); The New Southern Cook (Bantam, 1995); Hoppin' John's Charleston, Beaufort & Savannah: Dining at Home in the Lowcountry (Clarkson Potter, 1997) and The Fearless Frying Cookbook (Workman, 1997). 

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Please place your orders here online. Orders for corn products are ground and shipped in the order in which we receive them. They will come directly from my millers to you via UPS Ground. Please e-mail me if you need to contact me. Please allow three weeks' delivery time. 

Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking was published by the University of North Carolina Press in September! Click here for special offer.



To learn more about John and his culinary adventures and consulting work, visit his blog at www.hoppinjohns.net