On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:38:11 -0500, Tara >
wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:43:00 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:
>
>>You gonna try some southern food now? I will bring my southern
>>cookbooks with me, and indoctrinate you into Southern cuisine, if I
>>get there.
>
>Have you read any of Ronni Lundy's Southern cookbooks? I think you
>would enjoy them.
>
>Tara

Yes, I have those. I like them very, very much.

I have books by Damon Lee Fowler, by James Villas, by Bill Neal, by
the Lee Brothers, and I forget who else. Oh, and Edna Lewis. LOL.
The first book I got of hers was The Taste of Country Cooking, and I
then proceeded to collect all of her books over the years.

My collection of books on Southern food encompass 1 1/2 bookshelves,
and I still collect more. Even though I grew up in Virginia and know
a lot of what Edna Lewis talks about, I still want to and can learn
more about the regional cooking of the South. It is my heritage, and
I am proud of it. This essay of Edna Lewis speaks to me about the
wonder of southern food, and the culture from which it came.

Yes some of the southern food that has emerged is awful and not really
a good representation of how good it can be. Paula Deen is an example
of this, to my mind. When I compare the food/cooking of Paula Deen
and that of Edna Lewis, there is just no comparison. Edna Lewis and
her expression of Southern food is miles beyond Paula Deen, at least
to me.

Christine