Dinner Tonight: Pork chops in lemon caper sauce
It's Sam Sifton's favorite recipe in Toni Tipton-Martin’s invaluable “Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking” (2019).
Dinner Tonight
May 5, 2026

Pork Chops in Lemon-Caper Sauce

Pork Chops in Lemon-Caper Sauce
Rachel Vanni for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Spencer Richards.

Recipe by Sam Sifton | Total time: 35 minutes

Here’s my favorite recipe in Toni Tipton-Martin’s excellent and invaluable “Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking” (2019). It’s a remix of one that the chef Nathaniel Burton collected into his 1978 opus, “Creole Feast: Fifteen Master Chefs of New Orleans Reveal Their Secrets,” and one that Tipton-Martin glossed-up with lemon zest, juice and extra butter, a technique she learned from the restaurateur B. Smith’s 2009 collection of recipes, “B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style.” It’s a dish of smothered pork chops, essentially, made into something glorious and elegant. “The food history of Blacks in America has been a story of the food of survival,” she told me in an interview. “We need to start celebrating the food they made at work."

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