On Sun 06 Nov 2005 09:16:14a, Christine Dabney wrote in rec.food.cooking:
Quoted message said:Wayne Boatwright said:Quoted message said:Wayne, are you sure you're not a hillbilly in disguise? <g>
kili
LOL! I have a fondness for *Southern* foods, since all of my family is
from NE Mississippi as far back as the mid-1800s. I suppose southern
cooking is my "comfort" food. I also am very fond of British cooking and
many ethnic cuisines.
Heheheheehehe
I got to talking to Boli the other night in chat, about Southern
foods. I am from Virginia originally, and I am finding I like to get
back to my roots when I can.
It has a great stabilizing and reaffirming effect.
Quoted message said:I had my mother teach me a lot when I was growing up, but since I
moved away from Virginia, and since she died, I have been trying to
remember all I learned. I have forgotten some of it. I just now
relearned how to fry chicken like my mother did, even though I did it
at her direction for many, many years.
I was also taught to cook at an early age by my mother. She lived with us
during the last 5 years of her life, and I made it a point to do a lot of
cooking with her, or at her direction. I've done a pretty good job of
documenting her cooking techniques as well as family recipes. Sometimes
when I have something in mind, I just sit and think through how she made
something before I start. As you well know, a lot of this cooking is by
"touch". :-)
Quoted message said:I am thinking of taking an assignment back in Virginia again, to be
near family, and to relearn what there is of my southern heritage.
Boli kept on asking me what I meant about southern heritage...and I
only could answer from what I knew from growing up. I know there is
a lot more.
That would be wonderful for you. I wish I could do that. I am an only
child, and have only an aunt still living in Mississippi. None of my many
cousins cook like their mothers did.
Quoted message said:I tend to go back to what I know for comfort too....the South is so
very comforting...
It is, indeed!
--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!