How much do you know about southern cooking? If you are someone that was born and bred in the heart of the Deep South then you can, perhaps, remember spending long afternoons on your grandmothers porch drinking iced tea and shelling peas and butter beans.
You have now traveled to different parts of the world and mixed up with other cultures and still have not lost the love you have for the Southern cookery style and cuisine because of that thing which is inexplicable! Southern cooking is not for the faint hearted but the cooking style can surely soften strong hearts.
You possibly would have realized, in late teenage years, that that tea you drank when you were small could be served in other ways rather than just filled with ice and sugar.
Another thing is that there are people who eat vegetable that haven't been soaked in batter, dredged in cornmeal and deep fat fried.
One thing that is sure of is that you can never find anything like Southern cooking anywhere else but the South.
This could be as a result of the seasonings, the Cajun cuisine, the crab boil and the secret ingredient for fried chicken that is available in every kitchen in the South.
The Southern part of America is home to some of the poorest and most deprived people.
These people have to live with fewer amenities than most parts.
Contrastingly, some of these poor ones are in majority of the most generous people especially with food.
Food is never really in short supply and it is a common practice in the Deep South to offer food to visitors and the hungry too.