[Sca-cooks] Georgia on my mind ...

[Celia des Archier]

Actually, while LA is closer, without a car, it's almost as much of a commute as Yuma from San Diego, and would be a gamble, since I
don't know the city, and it's *HUGE*.  

But I do actually get up to LA once in a while with friends, so knowing where in LA is helpful :) ... And the info that Smithfield
hams might be found at a specialty Chinese market will also be helpful.  I've been ordering country hams from Sam Edwards, but will
check out if there are any Chinese markets around me :) 

I haven't been able to make it to Potrero yet (again - no car ... and no camping gear anymore, alas!) but it's kind of you to
mention it, and will try and connect if I ever do make it to anything ever again.  (The local barony seems to have all of their
activities in the same place, and that's a place not accessible to me via the public transportation system, so I've not made it to
anything since I moved here.) 

In Service, 
Celia

-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-bounces+celiadesarchier=cox.net at lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+celiadesarchier=cox.net at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Susan Fox
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 6:01 PM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Georgia on my mind ...

There are some country cooking places in the Los Angeles area but you 
need to know where to look.  My honourable ex, Baron Jared Blaydeaux, 
will probably chime in with some suggestions.  In the meantime, I 
discovered a New Orleans place, "The Sisters," a tiny hole-in-the-wall 
in the San Fernando Valley that warrants a field trip Very Soon.

In the meantime, Smithfield hams can be obtained at the Chinese grocery 
chain, 99 Ranch Markets.  Yeah, that sounds extra strange, but 
apparently there's very little material difference between Virginia and 
Yunnan ham.  Funny how parallel evolution happens.

I've just come into a Coleman Deep Fryer, thanks to my camp mom, and we 
may do a fish fry at Potrero War.  Stay in touch.

Cheers,
Selene Colfox, Caid


Celia des Archier wrote:
> I know how you feel... I'm a Southern expatriate living in San Diego. Originally from Nashville, by way various places (most
> recently Atlanta, GA), I knew the one thing I would miss would be real country food.  The closest we have out here is a KFC, and
> they alter the sides so that they're not really southern anymore.  And there was one little soul food place in an area of town I
> don't see very often that makes Southern fried catfish, but I don't even know if they're still there.  I miss fried catfish, fried
> southern fried catfish, *real* southern biscuits (made with a proper southern flour!) and *country ham*!
>
> The closest thing to real country cooking is almost 200 mi away from me in Yuma (that's the closest Cracker Barrel) and I have no
> car, so I either have to have friends willing to road trip, or I have to greyhound it (and spend an additional $70-100 on the meal
> ;-) .)  I haven't gotten that desperate yet, but it's been more than 5 years since I was back home, so who knows... I could get
that
> desperate eventually.  
>
> {sigh!}
> Celia