Posted on 03/06/2005 6:59:01 PM PST by quidnunc
Nice article.
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Very nice article!
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The Cajun food is to die for. Gumbo, with every type of meat immaginable. The crawfish etoufee, Boudin, the list is never ending. The traditional Southern cooking can't be beat either. Food. Food that is layed out on a table, like an artist would lay out their masterpiece. Deep fried catfish rolled in cornmeal. Warm hushpuppies, Turnip greens with chopped bacon slow cooked. Fried chicken cooked the way our great great grandmothers used to cook it. Buttermilk biscuits with honey or just plain tons of butter if your watching you weight. Mayhaw jelly. Okra prepared in so many ways.
The South. The South is about country, home, food, family, friends, and God.
The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson
He was writing about the greatest stock-car driver in history, but the historical context in which he frames this essay is what truly makes it a classic.
It's the humidity that makes the South different. The layer of moisture that comes out of the Gulf of Mexico which is the most obvious in the Great Smokies, along with the heat that even effects our manner of speech.
Yes. The oppressive humidity. Step out your door in the morning and your clothes immediately cling to you.
Yes, we're well hydrated down here.
Got to be those gallons of iced tea we put away. During the long summer months, my icebox is never without tea in it.
A good Southern meal is just not complete without iced tea.
That would be like a sentence without a period at the end.
I know you are from MA and Dunkin Donuts is sacred there but Krispy Kreme kicks Dunkin Donuts' ass any day.
The South is simply the South.
All true Southerners know what "the South" is. It doesn't need to be explained.
The explanations are always for the rest of the country, and usually those explanations get at least a little of it right.
"The South" is more something that you are---not a region to be described.
I'm from Kentucky, and we're well hydrated in the summer here too, but it tends to be dry in the wintertime (like right now). We get it all here. I've been in the deep South and I just spent a month in Connecticut. I don't know which is worse, the humidity in the summer in Alabama or the dry winter air up north.
Never tried one.
The light is dimmer in the north, I always miss the southern light and feel a sense of relief on seeing it again.
I am freakin marooned in Fresno, CA, with a bunch of surfer-dude wannabes and a bunch of Mexican crazies who all think they're Pedro Rodriguez driving a Porsche 917!!
I WANT SOME CATFISH AND HUSHPUPPIES!!!!
the old lonesome pines at the end of the pasture.
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