On 2009-04-04, Omelet > wrote:

> How do you prepare them and do they come out tender?

Cook for 2-3 hours! No kidding. This is a given for soul food cooks.
Anything less and it's like chewing old rags. Dang! I was looking for a
recipe and came across... me! I'm immortalized!

http://tinyurl.com/cefg7h

I looked for the orginal interview (NPR?), but found only this:

"This is how we do it in Laurel, Mississippi. You have to examine each leaf
personally, after you've washed it. You must take the yellow part out, and
you must tear every bit of green leaf off the stalk, in pieces as big as
postage stamps. It takes time, but this is how you have to do it. There are
as many different ways to cook greens as there are to sing soprano roles."

nb