Johnny Cash enjoyed cooking Southern comfort foods and regularly served home-cooked meals to visiting celebrities. He is most associated with "Old Iron Pot Chili," which uses cornmeal to thicken the stew. John Carter Cash included family recipes in The Cash and Carter Family Cookbook and described his father's use of liberal, unmeasured cornmeal thrown by hand into the chili pot. A practical method is to add one to two tablespoons of finely ground cornmeal and simmer at least ten minutes to absorb liquid. Cornmeal also contributes a mild corn flavor. A less flavorful alternative is a slurry made from flour or cornstarch.
But what Cash is lesser known for is his love of cooking. The Man in Black enjoyed preparing food, with an emphasis on Southern comfort foods, and even invited other celebrities over to enjoy his home-cooked meals with them. The dish he is most known for is his famous "Old Iron Pot Chili," which contains an interesting ingredient used to thicken the stew: cornmeal.
In it, he revealed that his father used liberal amounts of cornmeal to thicken his chili. The catch to this famous chili recipe, however, is that Cash never measured his cornmeal. "He would go by the chili pot with a handful of cornmeal in his hand - I remember seeing this so many times when I was a boy - and he would throw the cornmeal at the pot,"
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