SC - American food

[Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg]

I'm sorry to hear of your mother's passing.  She must have been proud of
you.
The cooking you grew up with sounds a lot like what I got:  Mom was born in
Asher, Okla. and Dad in what was then the rural outskirts of Houston, Tex.
Brought back memories.

Raoghnailt

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael F. Gunter" <michael.gunter at fnc.fujitsu.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:48 a.m.
Subject: SC - American food


> > And then, of course, there are the cuisines from the Southeast, which
usually
> > don't get a whole lot of play anywhere, except possibly in the
Southeast!
> > Southern cooking is usually the result of a marriage of African cookery
and
> > European, mostly British.  Then they added in the foods that they found
available
> > in the New World.  A lot of what is called Soul Food is southern
cooking...at
> > least what I grew up with!  However, contrary to popular opinion, it
doesn't
> > consist mostly of veggies that are overcooked with fatback!  A lot of
what you'd
> > find in Martha Washington's Cookery Book is typical of Colonial southern
> > cooking...and what we know today grew out of that.
> >
> > Kiri
>
> I got a good example of Southern cooking this weekend. My Mother died last
> Friday and I've been in Oklahoma making the arrangements and such all
week.
> Well, my mother's side of the family are "Cotton Patch Okies", meaning
they
> grew up as sharecroppers and cotton pickers along with the negro folks.
And
> the food I grew up with could be considered "Soul Food" by some.
> To keep occupied I spent a lot of time in the kitchen cooking and
cleaning. The
> friends of the family brought food, as I'm sure is done by just about
every
> human culture, and I got reminded of my childhood dishes. Lots of sweet
potato
> casseroles, fried chicken, home canned green beans, beets, hot peppers.
Ham
> steaks, potato casserole, peach pie. I cooked up a meal of pinto beans,
cornbread,
> ham steak and fried potatoes & onions as one of the meals I grew up with.
It was
> definately a trip back in time for me.
>
> Needless to say that my good diet and eating schedule were wrecked. Now
it's
> time to hit the gym.
>
> Gunthar
>
>
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