Culture Quote by Fannie Flagg

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

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

— Frank Thomas

The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks…

— Jenny Han

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

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

The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is a series…

— Michael W. Twitty

Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at the table…

— John Egerton

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