Make pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving

Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back to the people, places and experiences of your life. Her stories take you all around the South and are accompanied with tried-and-true recipes that are destined to become a part of your memory-making as you share them with your friends and family.

In the 1980’s, the brand Prego ran a television ad for tomato sauce with the repeated phrase, “It’s in there.” It featured a dad softly criticizing his son and daughter-in-law for using bottled sauce instead of making their own from scratch, because in his opinion there was no way anything commercial could compare to homemade.

In a heavy Italian accent, the son tells his dad, “It’s in there,” every time his father rattles off each necessary ingredient for the perfect sauce.