Tag Archives: Southern food

Co-Cola & Peanuts: A Fine Southern Tradition

  Check out my childhood memories of a treasured Southern tradition–pouring peanuts into Coke, or Co-Cola as we call it down South, in today’s Leite’s Culinaria.

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Good Luck for the New Year: Pass the Black-Eyed Peas!

I’m not sure where this thinking comes from, but Southerners have long held that chowing down on a serving of black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is essential to the coming year’s good luck. I had a college roommate who, … Continue reading

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Keeping a Slightly More Southern Kitchen in 2012

After spending so much time and blog space eating and writing my way around the globe, I’ve decided to shine a little light on the foods of my native South, The Old Country, as I sometimes call it (not the … Continue reading

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Oh the Comfort of Comfort Food

Fried catfish, fried okra, hush puppies (no way but fried!), cole slaw for health reasons, um, yeah…if we Southerners could figure out how to fry slaw we would! Yet another trip back home to Tennessee and yet another person or … Continue reading

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