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Southern Cuisine is steep in tradition. Cooking, eating and gracious entertaining once played an intense part of the culture. In some restaurants and homes today, that lifestyle quality still thrives.
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How many of these Southern Cuisine preparations have you tasted?
Memphis, Tennessee is widely considered America's pork barbecue capital.
They are typically leavened with baking powder or, in the case of Beaten Biscuits, none at all (their lightness comes from repeated beating).
It is often fried and served with Red-Eye Gravy (named for the liquid disk that forms on the sauce). Virginia's Smithfield Ham, made from peanut-fed hogs, is the finest product.
Ground dried hominy (corn treated with lye) that's slowly simmered into a mush. Served every meal, especially for breakfast.
The quintessential Southern specialty. Chicken pieces are floured or battered, then fried or deep fried.
So named because the beef is battered and fried like Southern Fried Chicken.
It is used both as a bread and a stuffing.
Unripe tomatoes are sliced and battered, then pan-fried.
The fillet is coated with seasoned cornmeal.
Hunting has always been big in the South. Kitchen-bound quarry include deer, opossums, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, and a host of game birds.
Southerners are gifted pie and cobbler bakers. Classic fillings include pecan, peach and sweet potato.
They rightfully sit under the Southern Cuisine umbrella. However, because of their fame and highly distinctive character, I created a separate web page for them.
See my Creole & Cajon web page
The Black slave women who cooked for their masters in the main-house kitchen played a significant role in the development of Southern Cuisine. For instance, they used ingredients and frying techniques of their African homeland that eventually became Southern Cuisine mainstays. They also created the renowned Soul Food Cuisine.
They, too, had a culinary impact. For example, they introduced early settlers to corn and molasses, and their many uses.
Southern Cuisine evolved mainly in the kitchens of nondescript small-to-medium-sized farms, which outnumbered the large Hollywood-hyped plantations a hundred to one.
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