"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> Heya folks,
>
> I am up late at night again, reading food blogs. And I just found
> this essay...
>
> This is an undiscovered til now essay by the late great Edna
> Lewis...sent to Gourmet Magazine and just published. This really
> resonates with me, and I post the link here for all you other
> southerners and would-be southerners...
>
> http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000...southern_lewis
>
>
I enjoyed that. It occurs to me that a lot of what she points out as
southern
is just like what is northern in the summertime up there, in rural areas.

People who live in the really urban northern areas can forget that there are
still vast rural areas everywhere.