View Single Post
  #9 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Steve Pope Steve Pope is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 8,635
Default What is Southern?

In article >, Pete C. > wrote:

>Christine Dabney wrote:


>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:03:37 +0000 (UTC),
>> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>>
>> >Christine Dabney > wrote:
>> >
>> >>I am inclined to avoid writers that fall into the Paula Deen mold
>> >>[..]
>> >
>> >So what mold is that? (I'm completely unfamiliar with Paula Deen.)
>> >
>> >Steve

>>
>> Using canned soups, convenience foods to create "southern" foods. Full
>> of fat, salt....
>>
>> Look on the food network site...to see some of her recipes. Mind you,
>> not all of them are bad, but most of them seem to fall in that
>> category.... And some of the combos just seem awful...at least to me.

>Are you confusing Ms. Lee with Ms, Dean? Ms. Dean is the pound of butter
>in everything cook, not the semi ho-made one producing the truly hideous
>convenience fare.


Christine seems to be right; there are cans of soup in a lot
of her recipes, and other overly-processed ingredients like
garlic powder.

Then there are a lot of ingredients that *could* be something
other than processed foods, like mayonaisse and chicken stock,
so you'd have to have more information about what she's
actually doing. One suspects processed in most cases.

Steve