Posted October 11, 2020
The thing about Southern food is that it is an amazing combo of lots of different food traditions!
Even better: beignets from New Orleans!
Hams from Virginia.
Chile from Texas.
Buttermilk biscuits!
Boiled peanuts!
Hush puppies!
Barbecue and sweet potato pie and succotash and fried chicken grits and collard greens…
…and fried green tomatoes and macaroni and cheese and catfish and sweet tea and okra and cornbread…
…and and and!
We have in Southern cooking traditions and innovations from African and African American cooks, French and Acadian cooks, Scottish and Appalachian cooks, Mexican and Seminole cooks, English and European American cooks, Choctaw and Caribbean cooks – and more!
A lot of Southern dishes are considered comfort food. Get your comfort-food on! Enjoy your own or someone else’s Southern food heritage today!
Here are my very favorite of all my Southern food faves:
You may have noticed: I like me some carbs!
Also on this date:
General Pulasky Memorial Day
Birthday of educator Salman Khan
Birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt
Day of the Girl
Archeologist and nurse Harriet Boyd-Hawes’s birthday
Mathematician Lewis F. Richards’s birthday
Anti-fascist Uprising Day in Macedonia
Kraken Day
Plan ahead:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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October holidays
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October birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in October
And here are my Pinterest boards for:
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November holidays
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November birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in November