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On Wed 23 Jan 2008 01:48:19p, blake murphy told us...

>>> 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-Fa...rence/dp/03120
> 50631/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-...ef=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.'
>
>


Thanks, Blake.

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Wayne Boatwright

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