Goomba38 wrote:
> -L. wrote:
>
> > Good Southern food doesn't have to be greasy or overcooked. My MIL
> > makes some awesome traditional Black Southern dishes.
>
> Edna Lewis. Nothing more need be said. She made some incredible food.
>
> I liken much of the "southern home cooking" style to poverty cooking
> that the southern ancestors dealt to. Put the veggies on to cook while
> working the fields, or tending a passel of kids. Way too much starch and
> farm fresh veggies prepared so they don't look any different from ones
> poured out of a can. Rare spice use, way too much sugar and salt, and a
> lot of frying or fat included as nothing was wasted on that hog.
> My "southern" ancestors were from Southern Italy.. our "peasant" foods
> seemed to taste better to me.

Comes straight from the UK roots of the area, especially the Protestant
Scottish.

re other posters, yeah, you are a snob, and catty too. Being right
doesn't change that. You got out of going to Applebees or Olive
Garden, places where most business travel groups end up. No reason to
air your disgust with your co-workers, or make out like you're so much
better than them.

Greg Zywicki.