Consumers Quote by A. J. Liebling

A lot of Southern flavor comes out of me. That's just the way I am.

— Joe Don Baker

Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food -…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“The American South is an authentic American Culture. Maybe the last. The north is just a Casserole Culture – a tasteless vat of leftovers,…

— Tim Heaton

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

— Erk Russell

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating the same…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have…

— Carla Hall

Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take.

— Rick Wilson

When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you…

— Florence King

Whether were eating tacos at a roadside stand outside of Houston, or having barbecue somewhere down south, or beautiful fried eggs in New York…

— Alex Wagner