What Is Southern?

What Is Southern?

"Southern is Reynolds Price discussing his mother’s cooking."

And Truman Capote cadging biscuits from you, hot from the oven.

At least part of Miss Lewis' gift is that of a writer, and a storyteller.
In the South, stories and writing and cooking seem to be intertwined.

This essay is a good example of that, and of Miss Lewis' talent.  If you haven't read her work before, this will give you a good taste.

From my experience, not all her recipes work, not all of them anyway, and not all the time.  The ones she did with Scott Peacock are better, in that regard, anyway.

And for those of you that haven't been to a hog killing?  It ain't as pretty as described in her books.  And it smells.  Being poor was (and is) harder than it looks, but you could eat real well, sometimes.

Authentic as all get out.
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2008/01/whatissouthern_lewis18ff.html

Comments

  1. Robert RambuschOctober 30, 2015 at 7:45 AM

    +1 for Southern writer Reynolds Price (born 1933) described pimento cheese “homemade by Mother” as the peanut butter of his childhood. Most of the versions found in southern supermarkets are, says Price, “made apparently from congealed insecticides.”

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  2. Drew McCarthyOctober 30, 2015 at 8:05 AM

    Yeah.  Pimiento cheese and BBQ are a couple of things I would not buy from a supermarket.

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