Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:03:05 -0400, "J. Clarke"
> > wrote:
>
>> If you want to know what genteel Southerners cook, you might want to go
>> over to Amazon and plug in "<name of Southern city> Junior League" and
>> you'll find a whole bunch of cookbooks containing recipes of varying
>> quality contributed by genteel Southern ladies, some of them passed down
>>from before the Civil War. The most established and best known is
>> probably "Charleston Receipts" from Charleston, SC, but it's far from
>> the only one. Many are out of print but can be had used.
>
> Don't give her any ideas...she will get one of those and pretend to be
> a southern belle...
>
> And she will need a southerner to stand by her, to make sure she
> doesn't mess up something as simple as green beans. Lawdy, those
> northern California women only think they know how to cook them...they
> don't even begin to know how to make a green bean taste wonderful.
>
> http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s..._in_pork_stock
>
> Christine

Oh yeah? Oh YEAH?! Yer grandmother wears army boots!

TammyM