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  Cuisine of the Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An example of a traditional Southern meal is deep fried chicken, field peas, turnip greens, cornbread, sweet tea and a dessert that could be a pie (sweet potato, pecan and peach are traditional southern pies), or a cobbler (peach, flberry or mixed berry are traditional cobblers).
Southern food is steeped in tradition, as seen on a sign for the Granny Cantrell's chain of restaurants in the Florida Panhandle.
Southern chains that are popular across the country include Stuckey's and Popeye's.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuisine_of_the_Southern_United_States   (2035 words)

  
 Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southern American English is a dialect of the English language spoken throughout the South.
Characteristics of southern literature including a focus on a common southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one's role within it, the community's dominating religion and the burden religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, and the use of southern dialect.
The easternmost tip of the state is close enough to Baltimore and Washington, DC that it too has started to become an exurb of these areas with a unique North-South "hybrid" culture (in fact, the two easternmost counties, Berkeley and Jefferson, are considered part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area by the Census Bureau).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._Southern_states   (6041 words)

  
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The riders, sponsored by CORE and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, are seeking to force southern states to enforce the United States...
Currently in the United States, Baptist involvement in politics often involves controversies concerning gambling, alcohol, abortion, same-sex marriage, the teaching of evolution and state-sanctioned public prayer in public high schools.
Moreover, Baptists are strongest in the southern United States, an area known for strong support of the military and thus generally not supportive of pacifist views.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Southern-United-States.htm   (1252 words)

  
 Articles - U.S. Southern States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Similar to Texas in that it has a Southwestern influence, Oklahoma holds strong ties to Southern culture, evidenced by dialect, religion, politics, cuisine, etc. It is geographically often grouped with the Midwest, but culturally is truly more Southern, especially in the eastern part of the state.
While southern Florida is seen by many as not truly part of the South in terms of culture, the Florida Panhandle, northeastern areas, North Central Florida, Nature Coast, and Central Florida remain culturally tied to the South.
Those who view them as Southern cite the fact that although neither state joined the Confederacy, slavery remained legal in them until ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, and that the Mason-Dixon line, long considered to be the border between North and South, is in fact the Maryland-Pennsylvania (and Delaware-Pennsylvania) border.
www.quickize.com /articles/U.S._Southern_States   (5359 words)

  
 Articles - Southern United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The South has also been prominently involved in numerous issues faced by the United States as a whole, including the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, slavery, the American Civil War, and Presidential politics (with the majority of the recent Presidents of the United States having come from the region).
For example, the Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the American South which consists of the South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana (six of the seven original states of the Confederate States of America, the seventh state being Texas).
While southern Florida is seen by many as not truly part of the South in terms of culture, the Florida Panhandle, northeastern areas, North Central Florida, Nature Coast, and most of Central Florida remain culturally tied to the South.
www.pointgathering.com /articles/Southern_United_States   (5292 words)

  
 The Evolution of the American Diet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
When immigration to the United States reached its peak between 1880 and 1920, the official educational policy was to create a “melting pot” implying that everyone's goal should be to become the culturally ideal “American,” generally assumed to be a white, middle-class Protestant.
The food that is eaten in each region of the United States reflects the climate and geography of the area as well as the history of the people that live there.
When the first Europeans visited the land that is now the United States, it was inhabited by over 400 different groups of indigenous people, each with their own culture and food traditions.
northonline.sccd.ctc.edu /ntrresources/amdiet.htm   (1849 words)

  
 On Southern Cooking
These people were most numerous in the Southern Applachian region, and their ancestral origins were mostly Scotch, Irish, English, Germanic, and to a lesser extent, French or Dutch.
The well known cuisine of southern Louisiana was mostly influenced by the "Cajuns", who were immigrants from Canada and of French origin.
In the South, its use was originally due to the fact that not much wheat was grown in the southern states; most likely its use became more widespread during the Civil War when supplies of wheat from the North were cut off.
www.bama.ua.edu /~bgray/recipes.htm   (2403 words)

  
 SUSTA ~ Southern United States Trade Association
Two regions of the world, Central America and the southern United States, were united this summer through culinary tradition during SUSTA’s Central America culinary training program.
The Institute was enlisted to present southern U.S. catfish to the chefs.
During this visit, presentations on southern cuisine were given at two schools to audiences of approximately 200 persons.
www.susta.org /about/success_cacheftraining04.html   (635 words)

  
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For instance, "southern cooking" was being discussed in 619 posts in rec.food.cooking; "southern music" 964 posts in rec.music.christian; "Faulkner" 511 posts in rec.art.books; "Tennessee vacation" 350 posts, "Georgia vacation" 410 posts, and "Virginia vacation" 460 posts in rec.travel.usa-canada; and "southern culture" being discussed a total of 858 posts in alt.thought.southern, alt.war.civil.usa, and soc.culture.usa combined.
Southern authors and traditional and contemporary literature related to the South.
The Civil War/War Between the States remains fundamental to Southern identity, and excluding it from a Southern newsgroup would be absurd.
www.faqs.org /ftp/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.usa.south   (7826 words)

  
 CHIBOG CHICKA LAKWACHA ATBP: Lasang Pinoy 4: Soul Food [Paksiw na Pata]
Soul food is an ethnic cuisine, food traditionally eaten by African Americans of the Southern United States.
Many of the various dishes and ingredients included in "soul food" are also regional fare and comprise a part of white Cuisine of the Southern United States, as well.
The style of cooking originated during slavery, when slaves were generally given only the "leftover" and "undesirable" cuts of meat (after the slaveowners had taken the choicest cuts), and had only the vegetables they grew for themselves.
leiorchid.blogspot.com /2005/11/lasang-pinoy-4-soul-food-paksiw-na.html   (1604 words)

  
 Amazon.com: 1001 Things Everyone Should Know/South: Books: John Reed,Dale Volberg Reed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The South is different from the rest of the United States, and it's not just because most folks who live there speak with a southern drawl.
Being Southern myself, I never knew what was in a mint julep (along with 90% of the rest of the South).
Southerners appreciate the meaning of home grown and honor their own perspective on life, which sometimes isn't the same as it is in other parts of the country.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385474423?v=glance   (1495 words)

  
 April Reynolds, "Celebrations of Thanksgiving: A Marriage of Contrasting Traditions" , U.S. Society and Values, July ...
The author longed for the familiar tastes and traditions of her Southern upbringing when she went north to live and study in New York City.
Her attempt to replicate them with her group of international friends led to compromise and adaptation, and eventually to new culinary practices after she married and adopted some of the traditions of her Italian in-laws.
Collard greens are high in calcium and a mainstay of cuisine in the southern United States
usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/0704/ijse/reynolds.htm   (1190 words)

  
 SUSTA ~ Southern United States Trade Association
The pavilion, promoting southern U.S. regional foods, is debuting this year at select trade shows in the E.U. SUSTA representatives will provide assistance with buyer meetings and follow-up, interpreter services, and a central lounge area in the pavilion.
Southern U.S. pecan suppliers are invited to send samples for free for use in the culinary demonstrations and sampling.
Generic events are organized and managed by state marketing representatives from the Departments of Agriculture of the SUSTA region, but events are open to all southern U.S. suppliers.
www.susta.org /press/insight.html   (3050 words)

  
 Ethnic Cuisine: African American
African American cuisine predominant in the southern United States is influenced by African styles of preparation and cooking.
For example, they developed methods to cook parts of the pig not eaten by their owner’s family, feasting on the snout, ears, feet, tail, ribs, thighs (hocks), stomach (maw), and small intestines (which when boiled and fried are known as chitterlings, or "chitlins").
Fried chicken was developed in the South during the nineteenth century and quickly became popular throughout the United States.
www.sallys-place.com /food/ethnic_cusine/african_american.htm   (1146 words)

  
 Red eye -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Red Eye Township, Minnesota, a place in the United States, located along the Redeye River.
Calgary Red-Eye, a drink made of beer and tomato juice considered to be a potential hangover remedy.
Red-eye gravy, a sauce used in the cuisine of the Southern United States.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Redeye   (286 words)

  
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Anti-obesity campaigns are receiving a luke-warm welcome on in the southern United States.
Much of the local cuisine of the southern United States features fried food – chicken, catfish, and even turkey and ice cream – and fat-laden dishes smothered with gravies or bacon.
Amid a national obesity epidemic and the South's infamous distinction as the "stroke belt," health officials have been trying to get Southern consumers to reduce their intakes of local fare.
www.meatnews.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=Article&artNum=9033   (610 words)

  
 Cuisine of the Southern United States -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Some foods commonly associated with the South are sweet tea, pit barbecue, grits, biscuits, especially with gravy or sorghum, catfish, casseroles, fritters, chicken-fried steak, cornbread, fried chicken, fried pies, okra and pickled green tomatoes, watermelon and peaches.
Etouffee (a very thick stew made of crawfish or chicken and sausage, okra and roux served over rice)
Often cooked down with chunks of ham or onions)
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Southern_US_cuisine   (1797 words)

  
 Good night, Miss Lewis | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
February 14, 2006 1:52 PM Edna Lewis, the Julia Child of Southern cooking, has passed away at the age of 89.
I'd never heard of Edna Lewis, thanks for the post.
One of the more interesting periods in her life covered in the documentary short was her exodus to New York City where she became the adored chef for post-WW2 artists, writers, scholars and performers, cooking simple but elegant meals based on her family's Southern recipes.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/49187   (280 words)

  
 AfricaWithin.com :: View topic - Food in African American Culture
Many of the Africans who came to colonial South Carolina arrived from the WEST INDIES, where, as linguistic evidence suggests, barbecue originated (barbacoa).
Today, African American cuisine is heavily influenced by Caribbean and South American cooking, including dishes such as Jamaican jerk chicken and fried plantains, and bean dishes such as Puerto Rican habichuelas and Brazilian feijoada.
Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South.
www.africawithin.com /v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?p=10&sid=0907125d7139e72b99d7974b31b87646   (1177 words)

  
 iChef.com Free Recipes - Crazy About Green Tomatoes
Green tomatoes have long been a staple of the cuisine of the Southern United States -- they were even immortalized in Fannie Flagg's humorous book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and the movie it inspired.
But with a little imagination, green tomatoes can be adapted to all kinds of recipes -- think spicy Indian chutneys or exotic Mexican salsas.
Here is a good basic version of the classic Southern side dish.
www.ichef.com /news.cfm?itemid=163540   (648 words)

  
 It's Christmas
Choosing a Meat Thermometer - Kansas State University
Mail Order Food Safety - United States Department of Agriculture
Festive Cookies and Candies - Southern United States Cuisine
www.oznet.ksu.edu /pr_rrc/christmas.htm   (93 words)

  
 W4E: United States Cuisine & Recipes
Chicken and Dumplings (Chicken stew with baking powder dumplings)
Chicken Pot Pie (United States savory chicken pie)
Corn Dogs (Cornbread and hot dog on a stick)
www.whats4eats.com /4rec_us.html   (242 words)

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