>> On Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:33:57a, Christine Dabney told us...
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> > Christine
>> >

not exactly on topic, but i would enthusiastically recommend to any
student of the south the writings of florence king:

<http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Failed-Southern-Lady-Florence/dp/0312050631/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201120640&sr= 8-4>

or for an omnibus, 'the florence king reader':

<http://www.amazon.com/Florence-King-Reader/dp/0312143370/ref=pd_bbs_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201120640&sr=8-7>

very, very funny lady, though she qualifies as a right-winger. an
excellent prose stylist as well. a quote: 'no matter which sex i
slept with, i never smoked in the street.'

your pal,
blake