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Sometimes, food is just that. Food. Cooked for eating. For the taste. Who cares how we "define" "southern food"? If you want to add ham hocks and collards to littleneck clams and call it southern, have at it.And, what a surprise! Another asian fusion number. Knock me over with a bamboo shoot. Paula Deen makes her living cooking and selling good old-fashioned southern comfort food. The kind made with ingredients that were widely available or grown out back. The kind that were cheap and didn't require anything other than a memory of your grandmother to make. The kind people used to eat all the time and which some still do.The other guy makes his an entirely different way. Not all food is meant to be an exercise (pun intended) in nouveau culinary art cum health care delivery. Sometimes, it just tastes good. If you want to stay healthy - go exercise and mix up your comfort foods with the occasional beer, glass of wine or granny smith apple.With apologies to Frank Stitt (whose restaurants I love), I would have reacted to that pablum just like Paula Deen did. You can debate the evolution of macaroni and cheese or call broken off rice kernels and bok choi grits if you like. But it doesn't change mama's recipe and it don't make rice kernals grits.Now do me a favor and pass the salt.
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Liti-Gator
(74.239.244.220) on 1/18/2012 - 12:50 p.m. says: ( 189 views
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