blake murphy wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:49:07 -0600, 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
>
> i'll stay neutral in this civil war, but green beans cooked to mush do not
> appeal.

That's the only way that Christine person "cooks" them. You know why
she needs so many cookbooks, don't you? Cause she doesn't know how to
cook, never learned how to cook, couldn't cook anything with Rick
Bayless standing over one shoulder and Saint Julia herself whispering in
her ear. The woman is hopeless, simply hopeless.

I, on the other hand, was born with a whisk in one hand, and a Mauviel
bourgeat in the other (mother opted for a C-section). My first words
were "bon appetit" and "Ou est Jacques Pepin, il est mon ami?"

That Christine person is a POSEUR, always has been. Ha, she's not a has
been, she's a NEVER WAS!!!!

:-)

TammyM